Jayme Kurland is a fourth year Ph.D. student in History at George Mason University. Her research interests include U.S. history with concentrations in cultural history and digital public history. Her current research investigates the roles women have played in the early history of the Fender Musical ...
This course will explore the history of American music and music technology, focusing especially on digital technology as it developed after WWII. The course will alternate between the history of digital media and the history of American music, looking at where they merge. We will be considering the ...
Michael O'Malley is the author of Keeping Watch: A History of American Time; Face Value: the Entwined History of Race and Money in America, and The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music. Keeping Watch explores the transition from natural to mechanical sources for time, an...
Suzanne E. Smith received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She specializes in African American history with a particular interest in exploring how the history of African American entrepreneurship can transform our understanding of African American culture. Her current research agenda focuses on the h...
Matt Karush received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997. He teaches a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Latin American history and has published extensively on labor politics and mass culture in Argentina. He is the author of three books and co-editor of a four...
Recipient of the 2021 Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion & 2022 NAACP Arlington President's Award for GMU Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) Task Force Dr. Christy Pichichero (pronounced \pi-‘ki-kə-rō\) holds a joint appointment as Associate Professo...
Does it matter that our popular culture is produced as a commodity to be sold on the market? Do economic incentives make culture more democratic and diverse, or do they stifle creativity and protest and change? Does the entertainment industry produce new forms of community and connection in the publ...
Jim Ambuske is Co-Head of R2 Studios, the podcast division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. At R2 Studios, Ambuske produces, creates, and hosts narrative history podcasts for general audiences. He is the executive producer of The Green Tunnel Podcast, and is the creator, writer...
Interested in traveling with Mason’s Art History Program? We have two trips in the works: In June, Associate Professor Lawrence Butler hopes to lead a four-week tour along China’s Silk Road, hosted by two Chinese universities, for 6 hours of academic credit. Stops will include the great cities of ...
By Lawrence Butler, Associate Professor During spring break 2006, I had the great pleasure of accompanying 25 students, colleagues, and friends to my favorite places in the world: Istanbul and the Aegean coast of Turkey. Istanbul is where I did my master’s and docto...
