Current Position: Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Education: Ph.D., U.S. History, University of Chicago; M.A., U.S. History, University of Chicago; B.A., Yale University. Grants, Fellowships, Honors, and Awards: Fulbright Research Scholar, University of Bordeaux III, Bordeaux, France (2005-06); Faculty Fellowship Enhancement Award, University of Michigan, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 2005; Journal of American History, Louis Pelzer Award, finalist, 1998 and 1999; Smithsonian Institution. Predoctoral Fellowship, 1998–99 (declined); University of Chicago. Von Holst Prize Lectureship, 1998–99 (declined); American Studies Association. Annette K. Baxter Grant, 1997. Professional Affiliations: American Studies Association; American Historical Association; International Communications Association/History Interest Group. Selected Publications, Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); "The Police de l'Air: Amateur Radio and the Politics of Aural Surveillance, 1921-1940," French Politics, Culture & Society 28, no. 1, 2010, 1-24; “Bare–Knuckled Broadcasting: Enlisting Southern Manhood and Racial Paternalism in the Battle Against Chain Stores, Chain Stations, and the Federal Radio Commission on Louisiana’s KWKH, 1924-1933,” The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 1, no. 3, 2004, 193-211; “Sounds of Whiteness: Local Radio, Racial Formation, and Public Culture in Chicago, 1921–1935,” American Quarterly 54, no. 1, March 2002, 25-66; “’Your Voice Came in Last Night…but I Thought it Sounded a Little Scared’: Rural Radio Listening, Progressivism, and ‘Talking Back’ in Wisconsin, 1920–1932,” Michelle Hilmes, Jason Loviglio, eds., Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (New York: Routledge, 2001), 63-88.