John Stauffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Stauffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Stauffer |
| SIGNATURE | STAUFFER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0126-0301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A novel framework for an empirical evaluation of social movements
Social movements have historically been classified by scholars by evaluating their stated missions or ideological goals; however, this practice risks normative bias and limits comparative analysis across social movements with different missions or goals. This study proposes, and then empirically tests, a framework for classifying protest movements based on intrinsic, observable, and measurable organizational and tactical characteristics rather th…
A Framework for an Empirical Evaluation of Popular Music
Popular music criticism often includes ratings where reviewers ascribe a number out of ten or a number of stars or something similar. In addition, institutions such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or music magazines such as Rolling Stone select and grade artists and songs they deem exemplary. The process by which critics and institutions evaluate music is not founded on any transparent, established objective metrics, so personal tastes and othe…
Charles Sumner's Political Culture and the Foundation of Civil Rights; Or, The Education of Charles Sumner
CHARLES Sumner was born on the North Slope of Beacon Hill in Boston on January 6, 1811, the eve of the largest slave rebellion in North America. He and his twin sister Matilda were the first two of nine children of Charles Pinckney and Relief Jacob Sumner. They each weighed three and a half pounds and gave “little promise of living many hours.” A neighbor was shocked when she saw them, calling them “the smallest infants she had ever seen.”1Two da…
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
The Mr. Emerson to which this volume pays tribute is a figure so ensconced in America's intellectual framework that we sometimes forget how iconoclastic he actually was.In his essays, Emerson fought intolerance, extolled imagination over doctrine, indicted fundamentalism, and demystified American exceptionalism.Simply put, Emerson was a Disturber of the Peace -an anti-honorific to which history has attached a gold star.When closely examined along…
The Black Hearts of Men
The Problem of Evil
The premise of this essay collection is that the institution of slavery as practiced in the American South was a historical evil that has never been fully confronted or atoned for. While a major strand of recent scholarship has focused on slavery's moral and philosophical implications as well as its physical, emotional, and psychological cruelties, coeditor Steven Mintz suggests that a true moral history of slavery must wrestle with bigger questi…
Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-century South
This essay provides a method and case study for reading photographs as memories. It examines the memories of slavery and the slave trade in Natchez, Mississippi, by analyzing and contextualizing the images of Henry Norman, one of the most important nineteenth-century Southern photographers. Through his family portraits, street scenes, and studio portraits, Norman constructs a progressive vision of Natchez in the years after the Civil War. He eras…
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
Melville and the Aesthetics of Freedom”
The paper explores the aesthetics of freedom in Moby-Dick from three perspectives: as it relates to Ishmael and his friendship with Queequeg; Ahab's quest to vanquish the whale; and the reinterpretations of the novel by two contemporaries, a black man and a white woman. All three perspectives draw on the sublime, an aesthetic that greatly influenced Melville. For Melville, the sublime could be used to break down racial barriers; it was a black ae…
The Black Hearts of Men
The Changing Heart of Abolitionism
The Black Hearts of Men
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.) Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North. By Patrick Rael. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 421. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.) The proof that many roads lead to the past lies in reading these two books one after the othe…
The Black Hearts of Men
How First-Time Viewers Comprehend Editing Conventions
African tribal villagers having little familiarity with any mass media were able to comprehend a filmed narrative, even when it utilized a variety of “point of view” editing techniques
The Effects of Social Class, Gender, and Personality on Physiological Responses to Filmed Violence
Richard Frost, John Stauffer; The Effects of Social Class, Gender, and Personality on Physiological Responses to Filmed Violence, Journal of Communication
The Attention Factor in Recalling Network Television News
John Stauffer, Richard Frost, William Rybolt; The Attention Factor in Recalling Network Television News, Journal of Communication, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1 Ma
Recall and Comprehension of Radio News in Kenya
Literacy, Illiteracy, and Learning From Television News
This paper reports on an investigation of the abilities of literates and adult nonreaders to recall and use information from a national network television news program. On a test of unaided recall of news stories the literates recalled 55% more stories than the nonreaders. On a multiple-choice test of information gain from the news program, the literates performed 63% better than the nonreaders. The samples were found to be virtually identical in…
Male and Female Interest in Sexually-Oriented Magazines
John Stauffer, Richard Frost; Male and Female Interest in Sexually-Oriented Magazines, Journal of Communication, Volume 26, Issue 1, 1 March 1976, Pages 25
The Problem of Evil
The premise of this essay collection is that the institution of slavery as practiced in the American South was a historical evil that has never been fully confronted or atoned for. While a major strand of recent scholarship has focused on slavery's moral and philosophical implications as well as its physical, emotional, and psychological cruelties, coeditor Steven Mintz suggests that a true moral history of slavery must wrestle with bigger questi…
Recall and Comprehension of Radio News in Kenya
Male and Female Interest in Sexually-Oriented Magazines
John Stauffer, Richard Frost; Male and Female Interest in Sexually-Oriented Magazines, Journal of Communication, Volume 26, Issue 1, 1 March 1976, Pages 25
Literacy, Illiteracy, and Learning From Television News
This paper reports on an investigation of the abilities of literates and adult nonreaders to recall and use information from a national network television news program. On a test of unaided recall of news stories the literates recalled 55% more stories than the nonreaders. On a multiple-choice test of information gain from the news program, the literates performed 63% better than the nonreaders. The samples were found to be virtually identical in…
Recall and Comprehension of Radio News in Kenya
The Attention Factor in Recalling Network Television News
John Stauffer, Richard Frost, William Rybolt; The Attention Factor in Recalling Network Television News, Journal of Communication, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1 Ma
The Effects of Social Class, Gender, and Personality on Physiological Responses to Filmed Violence
Richard Frost, John Stauffer; The Effects of Social Class, Gender, and Personality on Physiological Responses to Filmed Violence, Journal of Communication
How First-Time Viewers Comprehend Editing Conventions
African tribal villagers having little familiarity with any mass media were able to comprehend a filmed narrative, even when it utilized a variety of “point of view” editing techniques
The Changing Heart of Abolitionism
The Black Hearts of Men
The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race. By John Stauffer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 367. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.) Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North. By Patrick Rael. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 421. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.) The proof that many roads lead to the past lies in reading these two books one after the othe…
The Black Hearts of Men
The Black Hearts of Men
Melville and the Aesthetics of Freedom”
The paper explores the aesthetics of freedom in Moby-Dick from three perspectives: as it relates to Ishmael and his friendship with Queequeg; Ahab's quest to vanquish the whale; and the reinterpretations of the novel by two contemporaries, a black man and a white woman. All three perspectives draw on the sublime, an aesthetic that greatly influenced Melville. For Melville, the sublime could be used to break down racial barriers; it was a black ae…
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponen…
Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-century South
This essay provides a method and case study for reading photographs as memories. It examines the memories of slavery and the slave trade in Natchez, Mississippi, by analyzing and contextualizing the images of Henry Norman, one of the most important nineteenth-century Southern photographers. Through his family portraits, street scenes, and studio portraits, Norman constructs a progressive vision of Natchez in the years after the Civil War. He eras…
The Black Hearts of Men
The Problem of Evil
The premise of this essay collection is that the institution of slavery as practiced in the American South was a historical evil that has never been fully confronted or atoned for. While a major strand of recent scholarship has focused on slavery's moral and philosophical implications as well as its physical, emotional, and psychological cruelties, coeditor Steven Mintz suggests that a true moral history of slavery must wrestle with bigger questi…
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
The Mr. Emerson to which this volume pays tribute is a figure so ensconced in America's intellectual framework that we sometimes forget how iconoclastic he actually was.In his essays, Emerson fought intolerance, extolled imagination over doctrine, indicted fundamentalism, and demystified American exceptionalism.Simply put, Emerson was a Disturber of the Peace -an anti-honorific to which history has attached a gold star.When closely examined along…
Charles Sumner's Political Culture and the Foundation of Civil Rights; Or, The Education of Charles Sumner
CHARLES Sumner was born on the North Slope of Beacon Hill in Boston on January 6, 1811, the eve of the largest slave rebellion in North America. He and his twin sister Matilda were the first two of nine children of Charles Pinckney and Relief Jacob Sumner. They each weighed three and a half pounds and gave “little promise of living many hours.” A neighbor was shocked when she saw them, calling them “the smallest infants she had ever seen.”1Two da…
A Framework for an Empirical Evaluation of Popular Music
Popular music criticism often includes ratings where reviewers ascribe a number out of ten or a number of stars or something similar. In addition, institutions such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or music magazines such as Rolling Stone select and grade artists and songs they deem exemplary. The process by which critics and institutions evaluate music is not founded on any transparent, established objective metrics, so personal tastes and othe…
A novel framework for an empirical evaluation of social movements
Social movements have historically been classified by scholars by evaluating their stated missions or ideological goals; however, this practice risks normative bias and limits comparative analysis across social movements with different missions or goals. This study proposes, and then empirically tests, a framework for classifying protest movements based on intrinsic, observable, and measurable organizational and tactical characteristics rather th…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)