MICHAEL STAMM Department of History and School of Journalism Michigan State University Morrill Hall 526 W. Circle Drive, Room 301 East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 432-8222, ext. 134 stamm@msu.edu EMPLOYMENT Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 2008-present: Assistant Professor, Department of History and School of Journalism McGill University, Montreal, QC 2012-2013: Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Policy University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2007-2008: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication Affiliate Member, Department of History 2006-2007: Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Chicago, History, 2006 (dissertation awarded with distinction) Committee: Neil Harris (chair), George Chauncey, Amy Stanley, Adrian Johns M.A. University of Chicago, History, 2000 B.A. University of California, Berkeley, English, 1994 PUBLICATIONS Broadcasting Mainline Protestantism: The Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the Evolution of Audience Expectations from Radio to Television, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 22:2 (Summer 2012): 233-264. 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, 3 rd 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 American Journalism Article Award for best work published in the journal in 2010 (for Paul Lazarsfeld s Radio and the Printed Page: A Critical Reappraisal ), American Journalism Historians Association, 2011. 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 Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2005 Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2004-2005 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship, 2004 Freehling Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2003
Doolittle Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2003 Freehling Travel Grant, University of Chicago, 2002 Phoenix Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2000-2003 REVIEWS Review of Michael Broyles, Beethoven in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), Journal of American History 99:1 (June 2012): 321-322. Review of Alexander Russo, Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 32:2 (June 2012): 341-342. Review of Carl Kaestle and Janice Radway, eds., A History of the Book in America, Volume 4 Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940, in Enterprise & Society 12:3 (September 2011): 709-712. Review of David Eldridge, American Culture in the 1930s, in American Journalism 27:3 (Summer 2010): 177-178. Review of Mark Lloyd, Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, in Journal of American History 94:3 (December 2007): 919. Review of Mark Rosenthal, Carol Tuber, and Edward Huller, The Ark in the Park: The Story of the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98:1-2 (Spring- Summer 2005): 99-100. Review of Robert Loerzel, Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897, in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 97:3 (Autumn 2004): 258-259. Review of Tom Buck, Buck, Buck, What s Up? Tales from 60 Years in Journalism, in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 97:1 (Spring 2004): 80-81. Review of Richard Neer, FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio, in Journal of Radio Studies 10:1 (June 2003): 145-147. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS The Local Newspaper as Multinational Corporation: The Chicago Tribune across the United States-Canada Border, Presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Waterloo, ON, May 28, 2012. American News / Canadian Paper: Robert McCormick, the Industrial Newspaper, and North American Trade, Invited Lecture at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, March 9, 2012.
Discussant, Before Social Media : Communication, Community, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 8, 2012. Tribune Town: Baie Comeau, Free Trade, and the North American Newspaper in the Twentieth Century, Presented at the American Journalism Historians Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, October 8, 2011. The Metropolitan Newspaper in a Global Economy, 1910-2010, Presented at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, July 11, 2011. The Metropolitan Newspaper in a Global Economy, 1910-2010, Presented at the Business History Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 1, 2011. The Owner of the Printing Press as an Agent of Change In Broadcasting Policy, Presented at the Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH, June 4, 2010. The Use and Abuse of History in the Development of American Broadcasting, Presented at the Business History Conference, Athens, GA, March 27, 2010. Discussant, Newsworkers, Class Consciousness, and the Political Economy of the Media, North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, MI, October 23, 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, October 3, 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, July 25, 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, March 20, 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, November 29, 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, April 6, 2007.
Discussant, The Limits of Free Speech: Political Discourse and State Responses in Comparative Perspective, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 5, 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, February 25, 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, May 28, 2004. Taste, Community, and the Politics of Classical Music Radio, presented at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 18, 2003. Discussant, Panel on the Student Representative Party and National and Campus Political Issues of the 1950s, University of Chicago, June 3, 2000. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Historiography of the United States Since 1865, Michigan State University (graduate) The United States Since 1876, Michigan State University (undergraduate, online) Print, Publishing, and Reading in Historical Perspective, Michigan State University (undergraduate) U.S. Readings Seminar: 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) Doctoral Seminar: History of Mass Communication, University of 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) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Organization of American Historians American Journalism Historians Association Canadian Historical Association PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Board, American Journalism, 2012-2014 Canadian Studies Center Board of Advisors, Michigan State University, 2011-present Consulting Historian, Teaching American History Turning Points in American Freedom, NEH funded program in Calhoun County, MI, 2009-2010 Conference Paper Reviewer, Law and Policy Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2009 American Journalism Historians Association Task Force on History in the Curriculum, 2007-2008 Co-Coordinator, Graduate Student Panels at Race in the Making of American History: Perspectives at the Onset of a New Century, a Symposium to Honor John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago, 2003 OTHER EMPLOYMENT Research Assistant for Professor Neil Harris, University of Chicago, Department of History, 2005-2006 Webmaster, University of Chicago, Department of History, 2004-2006 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