Susan Smulyan

Biographic Data

ID391924
NAMESusan Smulyan
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMESmulyan
SIGNATURESMULYAN S
AFFILIATIONSJohn Brown University
ORCID0000-0001-5033-8921
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Why Public Humanities

    Open AccessSusan SmulyanARTICLEDaedalus2022

    This essay maps the nature, scope, and implications of the field of “public humanities” as practiced within the university. Calling for a public humanities that is collaborative, process-centered, and committed to racial and social justice, the essay considers the challenges and possibilities the new field brings to university teaching, scholarship, and administration. The author draws from her work at Brown University, her experience as the edit…

  • “The Shape of Wooden Bridges.” Technology, History and the Public: An Interview with Susan Smulyan

    Open AccessDidier Aubert, Susan SmulyanARTICLETransatlantica2021

    Susan Smulyan has dedicated much of her career to projects combining research, teaching, and a growing commitment to the "civic role" of academics both within and outside the university. In a recent book entitled Doing Public Humanities, she calls for engaged work that is "collaborative, process-driven, and politically-based." "Research and learning," she writes, "must grow from projects developed off-campus, as well as on" (Smulyan, 2021 36). It…

  • The Cultural Turn in U.S. Diplomatic History

    Susan SmulyanARTICLEDiplomatic History2009

    Penny Von Eschen's engaging and insightful monograph, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, stands as one of the best examples of a recent blurring of historical subspecialities. While diplomatic historians look to the cultural effects of international treaties, as well as to the importance of individual cultural producers and productions in the history of relations among nation-states, cultural historians, particularly …

  • Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy (review)

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Reviewed by: Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy Susan Smulyan (bio) Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy. By Jason Loviglio . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. x+200. $56.95/ $18.95. Jason Loviglio's book represents a second generation of radio history and, as such, moves away from an explanation of the ways in which radio broadcasting was structured, …

  • Live from Waikiki: Colonialism, Race, and Radio in Hawaii, 1934-1963

    Susan SmulyanARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2007Cited by: 3

  • Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947 (review)

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Reviewed by: Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947 Susan Smulyan (bio) Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935–1947. By Kathy M. Newman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+237. $55/$21.95. Kathy Newman's book succeeds in several contexts. It is part of a new concern among cultural historians and historians of technology for the users (or the audience, as we might think of them in this case …

  • Art of the People

    Open AccessPaul Buhle, Susan SmulyanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2001References: 1

    Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948. Harry L. Katz, Curator; Sara W. Duke, Curatorial Project Assistant; Riggs Ward Design, L.C. Designer Library of Congress (Oct. 20, 1999-Jan., 14, 2000; Museum of the City of New York, Oct. 7, 2000-Jan. 14, 2001). Life of the People: Realist Prints and Drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948 [ex. cat.]. Ed. Harry L.…

  • Everyone A Reviewer? Problems and Possibilities in Hypertext Scholarship

    Open AccessSusan SmulyanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1999

    Everyone A Reviewer? Problems and Possibilities in Hypertext Scholarship Susan Smulyan (bio) Forum on Hypertext Scholarship AQ as Web-Zine: Responses to AQ’s Experimental Online Issue http.//chnm.gmu.edu/aq The four articles presented as part of American Quarterly’s experimental project, “Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies” raise possibilities and problems with the hypertext form for the presentation of scholarly work. Before I explored th…

  • The Stocking Story: You Be the Historian

    Susan Smulyan, Claudia Goldstein et al.ARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1998

    The Stocking Story: You Be the Historian Get access Susan Smulyan, Susan Smulyan Susan Smulyan is an Associate Professor of American Civilization at Brown University and served as the Principal Investigator for the project sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and funded by the National Science Foundation, “Discovering Science and Technology Through American Histor…

  • The Vindex Special: Learning about Technology Through Advertising

    Susan Smulyan, C Kosty et al.ARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1998

    Journal Article The Vindex Special: Learning about Technology Through Advertising Get access Susan Smulyan, Susan Smulyan Susan Smulyan is an Associate Professor of American Civilization at Brown University and served as the Principal Investigator for the project sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and funded by the National Science Foundation, “Discovering Scien…

  • Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934

    Bethany Bryson, Susan SmulyanARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934

    Judith E Smith, Susan SmulyanARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

  • Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934

    Robert W Mcchesney, Susan SmulyanARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920–1934. By Susan Smulyan. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. viii, 223 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56098-312-4.) Get access Robert W. McChesney Robert W. McChesney University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 309, https://doi…

  • Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934

    James P Kraft, James Kraft et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

  • Discovering Science and Technology through American History

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    La societe de l'histoire de la technologie interesse les etudiants a l'etude des sciences et des techniques de l'ingenieur, a travers des projets historiques qui demystifient l'approche et le determinisme technologique

  • Discovering Science and Technology through American History

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    Curriculum Development Report DISCOVERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGHAMERICAN HISTORY SUSAN SMULYAN When Bruce Sinclair and Merritt Roe Smith took office as president and vice president of the Society for the History ofTechnology in 1987, one of their key priorities was expanding the audience for the history of technology. They chose a group of SHOT members to consider means of accomplishing this goal, and on behalf of the society that group a…

  • The Portable Radio in American Life . Michael Brian Schiffer

    Susan SmulyanARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1993

  • Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law

    Susan Smulyan, Jane M GainesREVIEWJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law. By Jane M. Gaines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xx + 340 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1977-8. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4326-1.) Get access Susan Smulyan Susan Smulyan Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1693–1694, https://doi.or…

  • Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio

    Susan Smulyan, Ronald GarayARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Gordon McLendon: The Maverick of Radio. By Ronald Garay. (Westport: Greenwood, 1992. xiv + 248 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-26676-X.) Get access Susan Smulyan Susan Smulyan Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 746–747, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080012 Published: 01 September 1993

  • Radio advertising to women in Twenties America: A latchkey to every home

    Susan SmulyanARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…1993Cited by: 7References: 4

  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio by Tom Lewis

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 701 history of the Steinmetz myth” (p. x). The reader therefore must not expect a connected narrative of Steinmetz’s private life. Kline might have observed, however, that Steinmetz’s vision of technological and economic transformation did not, apparently, include speculation on possible concomitant change in the relations of men and women. Of the various works on Steinmetz, many represent superficial research …

  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

    Susan Smulyan, Tom LewisARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting

    Susan Smulyan, George H DouglasARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting by George H. Douglas

    Susan SmulyanARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    342 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE fully, he argues, that, “By 1870, the photographic image was par with the printed word in human communication” (p. 273). Only Helena Wright’s paper focuses on photography as an art, examining how 19th-century American landscapes were produced, packaged, and sold by artist-entrepreneurs, many of whom hrst worked for the railroads or government surveying parties. Using the three Bierstadt brothers as a case s…

  • When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Communications in the Late Nineteenth Century. Carolyn Marvin

    Susan SmulyanARTICLEIsis1989