Media History Reimagined
A Discussion on Archives, Methods, Collaborations, and Digital Projects in Radio and Television History
with Carol Stabile (University of Oregon) and Josh Shepperd (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Moderated by Allison Perlman (UC Irvine)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 1:30-3:00 pm | HG 1010
Speaker bios:
Carol Stabile researches and teaches about the history of gender, race, and class in media institutions. She is the award-winning author of five books, including Feminism and the Technological Fix, White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture,
and The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist. Her articles have appeared in Camera Obscura, Cultural Studies, and South Atlantic Quarterly.She is currently working on a book project about the FBI’s Cold War crusade against radio and television network CBS. She is dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene, Oregon with her spouse and a pack of dogs.
Josh Shepperd is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is author of Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting (University of Illinois Press), which received the 2024 BEA Book Award and placed as a runner-up or finalist for four other book awards. He is co-writing the official History of Public Broadcasting for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Current with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine), and is the founding Associate Editor of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture (University of California Press). Since 2017 Josh has served as the sound research fellow of the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board, where he directs the Radio Preservation Task Force and Sound Submissions Project
Sponsors: UCI Department of History, Department of Film and Media Studies, Humanities Center, and Digital Humanities Exchange