Academics Who Started In College Radio
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@thunderrhoda.bsky.social
Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
@anneo.bsky.social
Comm tech & social media research professor by day, symphony violinist by night, outside as much as possible otherwise. German/American Pacific Northwestern New Englander, #firstgen academic, she/her, 🏳️🌈 https://anne-oeldorf-hirsch.uconn.edu
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@jenniferlena.bsky.social
Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences. Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
@alacranita.bsky.social
I write about violence and terror—their persistent use and function. I respond to ever-present despair with love, farming, and kittens. #hypewoman
@matoswk.bsky.social
Michaelangelo Matos Author, historian, critic, journalist St. Paul he/him The Underground Is Massive (Dey Street, 2015); Can't Slow Down (Hachette, 2020) I edit books - inquire within Beat Connection: DJ mixes newsletter - http://michaelangelo.substack.com
@drantjegamble.bsky.social
Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // Assoc Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her drantjegamble.com
@notalegalrecord.net
Bespectacled skeleton with some meat. Librarian; abolitionist adoptee; bicyclist; Southerner in New England; erstwhile philosophy prof, current LIS adjunct prof. Cis. Trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️ ✍️ www.notalegalrecord.net
@davidmislin.bsky.social
Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
@andy-uhrich.bsky.social
Documentary films don't preserve themselves. Curator of Film and Media at the WashU Libraries in St. Louis. PhD on DIY media preservation and history making.
@marydudziak.bsky.social
Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃
@ajdiazphd.bsky.social
Associate Dean | Assistant Professor | Scientist | #HigherEducation | #Academia | #Mentorship | #FirstGen | 🇵🇷 | Opinions are my own
@kringelberg.bsky.social
they/them, Art Historian I care a lot (too much?) Gay Race Communist, I guess
@gil-rodman.bsky.social
Black Lives Matter Cultural studies, critical media studies Linux, open source, pirate Beer, coffee, sushi https://www.gilrodman.com https://www.culturemedialanguage.com [podcast with Giulia Pelillo @gpelillo.bsky.social]
@anniezaleski.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s ‘Rio.’ Other books: Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Pink, Christmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
@michaelddwyer.bsky.social
film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
@itjustsaysm.bsky.social
Prof & Provost, @ProvManitoba. Scholar: media, music, Barthes, Bowie, Morrissey & U2. Views are my own.
@spinningindie.bsky.social
Musings about college radio, pop culture, and audio culture by Jennifer Waits
@egveitikkje.bsky.social
English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
@craigbrucesmith.bsky.social
Historian Wrote "American Honor" http://amzn.to/2wComsY Views mine. www.craigbrucesmith.com
@slavoshek.bsky.social
#Elite #HighChiefFQBBOTD https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jon-Mikolashek/author/B008YILQJE?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
@markcheathem.bsky.social
Historian, documentary editor, and writer. Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/markcheathem
@alyxvesey.bsky.social
Journalism and Creative Media Professor at the University of Alabama. Author of Extending Play (OUP, 2023). Popular Music Books In Process VJ. Feminist Music Geek. Pronouns: she/her/hers. Last name: vee-zee.
@allyfield.bsky.social
@crkelly.bsky.social
The device is waking from sleep mode | Dad | Dog + cat lover | Higher ed comms guy | Recovering public media journalist | Part-time Ph.D. student studying digital preservation of local news | #GoDucks
@alexrusso.bsky.social
Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to @LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
@hagured.bsky.social
Japanese media studies, digital studies, and STS @MSU. Author, ‘The Time of Laughter: Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan’ (UMich, 2023) http://press.umich.edu/12233973. Motivational speaker on dystopias and the end of days.
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@victorpickard.bsky.social
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society." Co-director of the MIC Center at Penn.
@somuchforthestate.bsky.social
He/him. Assoc Prof of writing, rhetoric, and global studies @ UM-Dearborn. Likes cats, games, and Dunkin’ Donuts. Most recent article is on human rights and corporate violence in Tech Comm Quarterly: https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2024.2394999
@matanaroberts.bsky.social
i make records and art, love books, and the outdoors… short list: #neurodivergentadulting #nonbinary #theythem #artssky #musicsky #bookssky #blacksky citizen of the world... we talk "arts" over here and world building...
@netakv.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. New book: *Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media* w/ Ioana Literat
@rheinze.bsky.social
Historian, German Historical Institute Paris, Dept. of African History Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas. Mastodon: @rheinze@todon.eu @rheinze@hcommons.social HCommons: @rheinze
@kennysmith.bsky.social
Adventuring with @laurensmith.bsky.social. Cyclist, diver, reader, builder. On the side: professor of comm studies, sports comm and media. Formerly: reporter, anchor, producer, adviser. https://www.kennysmith.org [he/him/his]
@fredner.org
Digital humanities, C19-20 US literature, data about literary cultures VAP at the University of Richmond Website: https://fredner.org Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/AJKhTywrlnum2XumtnoE3p68jyj98YQCTWoFn3hzn9J1TF5pMuhJpLSZy4rWyi8v
@annehelenstevens.bsky.social
Professor of English and dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
@djouroboros.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. Communication Wilfrid Laurier University/ DJOuroboros--Low End Theory radio on WZBC 90.3 FM Newton-Boston (wzbc.org) and Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/andrew-herman3/). Tech Cultures/Radio/sound studies/podcasting/sonic research creation
@djpeterde.bsky.social
Radio DJ: "The Laughing Clock" (@gtdradio.bsky.social) WFMU.org/drummer WVUD.org Mixcloud.com/DJpeterDE
@medievaliste.bsky.social
independent scholar, sometime professor, academic editor medieval studies; musicology; women’s and gender history; increasingly writing about feelings glgower.com
@mbdando.bsky.social
Comics. Hip hop. Education. Associate Prof of English Education @ St. Cloud State University (skeets = me).
@inqualia.bsky.social
other spatial mediations | media studies & japan studies | books: ambient media, the immersive enclosure | proquet.mit.edu
@mikevanesler.bsky.social
associate prof. of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. bad movies, streaming media, anime, and jrpgs
@garrt.bsky.social
Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
@vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
@bstingstl.bsky.social
•Former Alderman, St. Louis City. •Former Chair, MO Dem LGBTQ Caucus. •Former Secretary, St. Louis Young Dems. •Constitutional Law/American Studies/Classical Studies. •Humanist Atheist. You being here means a great deal to me. 🏳️🌈🐝
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@emilysteinlight.bsky.social
assoc prof at Penn English (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
@heingoemans.bsky.social
Galactic Effectuator (obvious Jack Vance aficionado); Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Interests: war and war termination, territorial disputes, why do leaders and why do individuals fight?
@wesmckinzie.bsky.social
Race and sports scholar. #Sportsbiz prof at Oklahoma Christian U. GCU DBA. Acappella bass singer. Husband. Dad. Christian. Praise God Always! #BLM
@drdecaluwe.bsky.social
Clean energy, running, and indie rock enthusiast. He/him. I run the battchat feed, which collects battery news and research on Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eq6kdrarrrb6wpmo3cn3ijyk/feed/aaaphyckazsve
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@lindsaypalmer.bsky.social
Professor at UW-Madison. I’m an antiracist, white cis woman who’s pansexual and a trans ally. I study press freedom and international news from a decolonial and feminist perspective. Author of The Fixers: the Underground Labor of International Reporting.
@nope4evr.bsky.social
Librarian and Liaison Program Lead, PhD candidate, LIS adjunct faculty. Instruction programs, crit info lit, edu policy studies, valuation of library labor, qual methods. 🌱🐈⬛🚲☕️ https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
@awest505.bsky.social
Co-owner CineJourneys. Co-Host Criterion Now. Studied history/film. Proud husband, cat owner, 49ers fan, cinephile. Author of The A24 New Wave https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aaronwest/the-a24-new-wave?ref=7xdg4e
@troycoverdale.bsky.social
MHK-based; NewsRadio KMAN PD & morning host; former pbp Northern Colorado Bears football, basketball & baseball; Kansas State Univ. alum; RT's =/= endorsement https://linktr.ee/troycoverdale https://troycoverdale.com
@chefstentor.bsky.social
Cartographer, podcaster, academic studying wildfire, Q method, and fantasy maps. Settler in Jaödeogë’ (Pittsburgh). They/them. https://mapsburgh.com https://carrierbagpodcast.blogspot.com/ https://glittercats.itch.io
@multiphasic.bsky.social
Commercial determinants of health. Harm reduction. Baseball. Crabs. Punk rock. He/him. Good-bad (not evil).
@ellinst.bsky.social
Arts journo (now mostly Slate and Byline Times), MA Screenwriting lecturer @Goldsmiths UoL, authorina https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393074093, tech fumbler
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@annarosestamm.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Indiana University | STS - Broadcast History - Cultural Geography - Local/National Histories | annarosestamm.net
@mjrp.bsky.social
a historian(ish) currently writing a book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC and another book about how we do history now. https://linktr.ee/comingtowashington
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below! I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@leekluckhistorian.bsky.social
Public Historian who focuses on sports topics and interesting local stories with international implications. Author of Leave While the Party's Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton. https://history4publicconsumption.substack.com/
@andyelrick.bsky.social
Dir. of Center for Sports Comm and Prof of Sports Comm at Marist University. Got a Ph.D. Never been invited on a podcast. Former cog at ESPN, CBS Sports and FIBA. QPR, Cubs and UConn. Views mine. Newsletter: https://andyelrick.substack.co
@wmschumacher.bsky.social
Gothic/Horror Film & Fiction Pedant (ghost stories, esp. M. R. James); Amateur Theatricals; Wastrel and Ne'er-Do-Well. Former Teacher. U of I ‘91, WPGU.
@shsalter.bsky.social
Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals, at Emory U. [all opinions = my own] Also: dogs dogs dogs
@monicacmiller.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
@dwebster.bsky.social
Historian: Canada, Quebec, Asia, Timor-Leste, human rights, development. Latest book Challenge the Strong Wind https://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind . On unceded Abenaki land, maintenant connu sous le nom Estrie/Eastern Townships.
@akahrl.bsky.social
Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, author of The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
@robertpaulett.bsky.social
Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@profruback.bsky.social
IR theory / historical IR / Pedagogy / Maine / Dogs. Views=mine. Trying to practice kindness here. Also here to remind everyone that Thucydides never said that. https://sites.google.com/view/timrubackme/
@addieisunwieldy.bsky.social
Biracial Asian writer. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (forthcoming from Bloomsbury). Shirley Jackson finalist. Features & Reviews ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. sensitivity reader. http://www.addietsai.com
@profchander.bsky.social
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@christopherterry.bsky.social
University of Minnesota/HSJMC Associate Professor of Media Law. I teach folks about the 1st Amendment, @FCC, @FEC& @FTC policy for a living. Otherwise talking Brewer Baseball and Fishing. And yes, the hostile opinions re: FCC policy failures are mine.
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Assoc prof of ENGL, Marquette U • writing about deafness, disability, queerness in the looong c18 • cat dad • running punk • KEXP listener • novel reader • 🏳️🌈🦻• 🏀🏈 U of U, MU, Bucks, Packers • he/him
@activecultures.bsky.social
Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE IG @activecultures Also me (w/ others): @NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC Representing no one but me
@rompenni.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Chair Department of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University. Host Stats + Stories podcast. The horrors persist and so do I. Opinions my own. she/her
@ericdharvey.com
prof @GVSU ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ Hoosier in Michigan ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
@aprudy.bsky.social
that pic was long ago... CMU sociologist (UCSC) with bachelors in biology (Swat) who prolly shoulda been a geographer, envtal Marxist, father, partner, once-DIII soccer, -club ultimate and -college radio programmer
@gonzeux.bsky.social
Professor of Communications Media Co-Author, Musical Intimacy - out Sept. 2023 via Bloomsbury Academic Host, Jazzish - 10pm-mid ET Saturdays on WIUP-FM linktr.ee/zackstiegler
@sbwatter.bsky.social
new york, ny | author of The Human Figure on Film (SUNY, 2023) and of articles on film, media, the human sciences, psychiatry substack: https://prognosisnegative.substack.com/ scholarly writing here: https://nyu.academia.edu/sethbarrywatter
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@jgarc.bsky.social
AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular synthesizer. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
@sievefistedfind.bsky.social
Documentary Film & TV including jams like Philly DA (PBS), Queer Futures (Criterion), 16 Shots (Showtime), Dear Mr. Brody (Discovery+) Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag Header: Uncle Sam Avatar: use in case of Purple Rain
@goblemark.bsky.social
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
@amsw66.bsky.social
Prof. Emerita (finally) still a Historian, Lakers fan, Boxing fan, Corgis, working on Latinx religion but first, Dan Berrigan bio. Chicana, ELA por vida