Richard Popp

Assistant Professor

126 Johnston Hall
(414) 229-5376
popp@uwm.edu

Degrees:

Ph.D., Temple University
M.B.A., Virginia Tech
B.A. Virginia Tech

Courses Taught:

JAMS 262: Principles of Media Studies
JAMS 860: Media and Consumer Culture

Research Interests:

History of consumer culture; media history; media and cultural space; mobility; social memory

Selected Publications:

The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising and Mass Tourism in Postwar America (LSU Press, forthcoming)

“Making Advertising Material: Checking Departments, Systematic Reading, and Geographic Order in Nineteenth-Century Advertising.” Book History, 13 (2011).

“Machine-Age Mobility: Media, Transportation, and Contact in the Interwar United States.” Technology & Culture, 52, no. 3 (July 2011): 459-484.

“Domesticating Vacations: Gender, Travel, and Consumption in Postwar Magazines.” Journalism History, 36, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 126-137.

“Visual Culture, Public Space, and Piety in Focus on the Family’s Citizen Magazine.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 27, no. 5 (December 2010): 498-518.

 “‘X’-ing Out Enemies: Time Magazine, Visual Discourse, and the War in Iraq.” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 11, no. 2, (2010): 203-221. Co-authored with Andrew Mendelson.