Susan Smulyan

Faculty Member
Brown Public HumanitiesProfessor of American Studies, Director of John Nicholas Brown Center
EmailSusan Smulyan is Professor, Department of American Studies, at Brown University and the Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. She is the author of Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting and Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century, and co-editor of Major Problems in American Popular Culture. Professor Smulyan is a cultural historian of the United States in the twentieth century, teaching courses in popular culture, advertising history, radio, digital scholarship, and American Studies and Public Humanities methods, directing nine dissertations, and serving as a reader on twenty five others. She held a Research Fellowship in the Scholars and Artists in Residence at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; is a member of the board of the Advertising Education Foundation; and served as Principal Investigator – International, Australia Research Council project, “Globalising the Magic System: a History of Advertising Industry Practices in Australia, 1959-1989.” She is currently interested in the relationship between the public arts and the public humanities.
People
- Candace Borders Yale
- Ryan Brasseaux Yale
- Marisa Brown Brown Public Humanities
- Jasmine Chu Brown Public Humanities
- Mary Marshall Clark Columbia
- Stacy M. Hartman CUNY
- Charlotte Hecht Yale
- Matthew Jacobson Yale
- Mark Krasovic Rutgers
- Meredith B. Linn Bard Graduate Center
- Steven Lubar Brown Public Humanities
- Seth Moglen Lehigh University
- Cheryl Nixon University of Massachusetts Boston
- Diane O’Donoghue Tufts
- Mary Rizzo Rutgers
- Karin Roffman Yale
- Katina Rogers CUNY
- Sylvia Ryerson Yale
- Susan Smulyan Brown Public Humanities
- Doris Sommer Harvard University
- Amy Starecheski Columbia
- Laura Troiano Rutgers
- Shana Weinberg Brown Public Humanities
- Laura Wexler Yale
- Catherine Whalen Bard Graduate Center