MICHAEL STAMM

Department of History and

School of Journalism

Michigan State University

301 Morrill Hall

East Lansing, MI 48824

(517) 432-8222, ext. 134

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, 3rdedition (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