Graduate Student, History
ABD/PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: Dancing About Buildings: regional broadcasting as seen through the medium of the print archive.
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Dr. Howard Segal
Dr. Christopher Sterling Dr. Nathan Godfried Dr. Jacques Ferland Dr. Jay Bregman |
About
I have been an artist, a musician, a farmer, printer, teacher, writer. I have been a construction worker and a go-go dancer. Most recently I worked for over 20 years in public and community radio, before going back to school to earn a PhD in the history of media.
At this moment I am filled with a heady mix of excitement and trepidation as I begin work on my dissertation. I have been working diligently on the final stages of research, thanks in part to the Northeast Regional Fellowship Consortium, which so generously awarded me a fellowship grant to explore the history of regional radio.
After attending a week-long NEH seminar in Fremont Ohio last spring, I have been working on a paper called "The Loving Eye," describing the role a young female photographer played in documenting the family life of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Another paper on the gentrification of the natural and organic foods movement has been accepted for presentation at next year's Agricultural History Society conference in Springfield Illinois.
These trips will continue what has been a very busy research and conference schedule. Beginning with the PCA/ACA conference in New Orleans in April of 2009, my recent travels have allowed me to attend -and present at- professional meetings at the University of Bucharest, Romania; the University of Cardiff, Wales; Cambridge University, UK; the Trans-national Radio Conference in Toronto, Canada; the SSHA conference in Long Beach, California; the NEPCA conference in Queens, New York, the Agricultural History Association conference in Orlando, Florida, and the Conference for the Preservation of the Book, at Edinburgh University, Scotland.
The opportunity to share my work with knowledgeable and supportive colleagues from around the country and the world has been of immeasurable help in focusing and clarifying my research and writing, and I thank all of those who attended any of my presentations this past year. May we soon meet again!
