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Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff

A leading scholar of American cultural history, Lauren Sklaroff is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Her areas of research include all elements of popular culture, and the history of race and ethnicity in the U.S.. She taught previously at George Mason University, held a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, and was an assistant curator for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Her first book, Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era, explained the government’s extensive use of racially-oriented cultural programs during the Depression and World War Two. In its review of the book, H-Net called the book, “A valuable addition to the growing history of the ‘long’ civil rights movement.” Reviews in American History stated, “Black Culture and The New Deal is a nuanced and highly effective exploration of the discourses about race and inequality in the theater, radio, print culture, and motion pictures of the era.” In 2002, she won the Organization of American Historian’s esteemed Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for her essay on the boxer, Joe Louis.

Lauren’s new book, Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker, is based on years of research in the Sophie Tucker Scrapbook Collection at the New York Public Library, as well as several other prominent archives relating to popular culture, Jewish History, and African American History. The book was supported by a fellowship from the New York Public Library as well as the University of South Carolina Provost Humanities Grant, and an NEH public scholars fellowship.

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Reuben Jonathan Miller

Reuben Jonathan Miller is the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, published by Little Brown. Selected by NPR as a 2021 Book We Love, and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, Matthew Desmond praised it as “persuasive and essential.”

Reuben is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration. His work focuses on the lives of prisoners and former prisoners, and he writes about race and how carceral expansion has transformed the urban landscape.

He has received a number of awards to support his work, including fellowships from the Yale Urban Ethnography Project, the University of Michigan’s Program for Research on Black Americans, and the Racial Democracy Crime and Justice Network at Rutgers University. The McCormick Foundation, the American Society of Criminology, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Antipode Foundation have funded his research. He provides commentary for national and international newspapers, magazines, and radio broadcasts, including The New Yorker, Wired, NPR, and the Huffington Post.

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Christian Sandvig

Christian Sandvig is a Professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in both Information and Communication Studies. He is a researcher specializing in studying the consequences of algorithmic systems that curate and organize culture. He has written about social media, wireless systems, broadband Internet, online video, domain names, and Internet policy. His group blog was named one of the “Must-Follow Feeds” in science, culture, and design by Wired.

Before moving to Michigan, Sandvig was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (where he founded the Center for People & Infrastructures) and Oxford University. Sandvig has also been a visiting scholar at McGill University, the Oxford Internet Institute, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford, Intel Research, Microsoft Research, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.

Sandvig was named a “next-generation leader in science and technology policy” by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER) in Human-Centered Computing.

He has published over 50 scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and papers in conference proceedings, receiving “best paper,” “first prize” and other awards from these venues (including ACM CHI, ICA, AEJMC, ICWSM, SCMS, and TPRC). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hungarian.

The US National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom, and the Internet Society have funded Sandvig’s research.

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Kristine Thorson

Kristine Thorson is the author, with Robert Thorson, of Stone Wall Secrets, published by Tilbury House Publishers.  The book was honored as one of Smithsonian’s Notable Books for Children in 1998.

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Andrei Hagiu

Andrei Hagiu is a Visiting Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He was previously an Associate Professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on multi-sided platforms and their unique strategic challenges. His work has been published in the RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, and the Harvard Business Review. Andrei serves as a coeditor for the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. He is co-author, with Richard Schmalensee and David Evans, of Invisible Engines, published by MIT Press.

 

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