MICHAEL STAMM



MICHAEL STAMM

Department of History and

School of Journalism

Michigan State University

301 Morrill Hall

East Lansing, MI 48824

(517) 432-8222, ext. 134

stamm@msu.edu

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

• 2008-present: Assistant Professor, Department of History and School of Journalism, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• 2007-2008: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Affiliate Member, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• 2006-2007: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Chicago, History, 2006

Dissertation: Mixed Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in American Politics and Culture, 1920-1952

Neil Harris (chair), George Chauncey, Amy Stanley, Adrian Johns

Dissertation awarded with distinction.

M.A. University of Chicago, History, 2000

MA Paper: Bach, Not Rock!: Taste, Community, and the Politics of Classical

Music Radio in Postwar Chicago

B.A. University of California, Berkeley, English, 1994

PUBLICATIONS

• Sound Business: Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).

• “Paul Lazarsfeld’s Radio and the Printed Page: A Critical Reappraisal,” American Journalism 27:4 (Fall 2010): 37-59.

• David Sloan and Michael Stamm, Historical Methods in Communication, 3rd edition (Northport: Vision Press, 2010).

• “Newspapers, Radio, and the Business of Media in the United States,” OAH Magazine of History 24:1 (January 2010): 25-28.

• “The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States,” in Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, eds. Susan Strasser and David Suisman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009): 221-241.

• “Questions of Taste: Interest Group Liberalism and the Campaigns to Save Classical Music Broadcasting in Post-World War II Chicago,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 25:2 (2005): 291-309.

• Entry for “Kenneth Delmar,” Encyclopedia of Radio (New York: Routledge, 2004), vol.1, pp. 443-444.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Learning Leader recognition for teaching, Department of Residence Life, Michigan State University, 2011.

• Learning Leader recognition for teaching, Department of Residence Life, Michigan State University, 2010.

• Learning Leader recognition for teaching, Department of Residence Life, Michigan State University, 2009.

• Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in journalism and mass communication history, American Journalism Historians Association, 2007

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Canadian Embassy Faculty Research Grant, 2011

University of Minnesota McKnight Summer Fellowship, 2007

University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2007

University of Chicago Department of History Harry Barnard Memorial Dissertation Fellowship in American History, 2005-2006

Freehling Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2005

• Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2004-2005

• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship, 2004

Phoenix Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2000-2003

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

• “The Metropolitan Newspaper in a Global Economy, 1910-2010,” Presented at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, 11 July 2011.

• “The Metropolitan Newspaper in a Global Economy, 1910-2010,” Presented at the Business History Conference, St. Louis, MO, 1 April 2011.

• “The Owner of the Printing Press as an Agent of Change In Broadcasting Policy,” Presented at the Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH, 4 June 2010.

• “The Use and Abuse of History in the Development of American Broadcasting,” Presented at the Business History Conference, Athens, GA, 27 March 2010.

• Commentator, “Newsworkers, Class Consciousness, and the Political Economy of the Media,” North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, 23 October 2009.

• “Anti-Semitism, Prior Restraint, and the Politics of Post-WWII Broadcasting In New York City,” presented at the American Journalism Historians Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 3 October 2008.

• “Shaping Public Knowledge: The New Deal and the American Media during the Great Depression,” presented at State Knowledge During the New Deal: Control as Usual?, a workshop held at the University of Chicago, 25 July 2008.

• “Paul Lazarsfeld’s Radio and the Printed Page: A Critical Reappraisal,” presented at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 20 March 2008.

• “The Sound of Print: Newspaper Ownership of Radio and the Sonic Promotion of the American Press in the 1920s and 1930s,” presented at Sound in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction, A Conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE, 29 November 2007.

• “Mixed Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in American Politics and Culture,” presented at the American Journalism Historians Association Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, 12 October 2007.

• “Creating the Multimedia Monopoly: Newspaper-Radio Joint Ownership in 1930s America,” presented at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 6 April 2007.

• Discussant, “The Limits of Free Speech: Political Discourse and State Responses in Comparative Perspective,” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 5 November 2006.

• “Power, Politics, and the Mystery of New Media: Newspaper Ownership of Radio in 1920s America,” presented at the Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture, Chicago, IL, 25 February 2005.

• “The 1940s FCC Newspaper-Radio Hearings and the Making of the Modern Mass Media,” presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 28 May 2004.

• “Taste, Community, and the Politics of Classical Music Radio,” presented at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 18 April 2003.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• The United States Since 1876, Michigan State University (undergraduate)

• Print, Publishing, and Reading in Historical Perspective, Michigan State University (undergraduate)

• The Mass Media and American Public Life, Michigan State University (graduate)

• Introduction to Mass Media, Michigan State University, (undergraduate)

• History of Broadcasting in the United States, Michigan State University (undergraduate)

• Historical Methods and Skills: Culture and Politics During the Great Depression, Michigan State University (undergraduate)

• Social Differentiation and Inequality, Michigan State University (undergraduate)

• History of Journalism, Michigan State University (graduate and undergraduate)

• History of Mass Communication, University Minnesota (graduate)

• Introduction to Mass Communication, University of Minnesota (undergraduate)

• History of Journalism, University of Minnesota (graduate and undergraduate)

• The Media in American History and Law, University of Minnesota (undergraduate)

• America in Western Civilization III, University of Chicago (undergraduate)

OUTREACH

• Consulting historian, Teaching American History – Turning Points in American Freedom, NEH funded program in Calhoun County, MI, 2009-2010

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Historical Association

• Organization of American Historians

• American Journalism Historians Association

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

• Research Assistant for Professor Neil Harris, University of Chicago, Department of History, 2005-2006

• Undergraduate Program Coordinator, University of Chicago, Department of History, 2003-2004

• Research Assistant for Professor Mae Ngai, University of Chicago, Department of History, 2002-2003

• Volunteer and Disc Jockey, WHPK 88.5 FM, Chicago, IL, 2000 – 2003

• Researcher, Law and Economics Consulting Group, Emeryville and Los Angeles, CA, 1997-1999

• Architectural Preservation Project Volunteer, Land and Culture Organization, Kessab, Syria, 1996

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