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- E-Mail:
- sdoug@umich.edu
- Telephone:
- 734.764.0423
- Interests:
- Radio
- Role(s):
- Researcher
- Location(s) of Work:
- US - Midwest
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication Studies
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI, Michigan, United StatesChair
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Program in American Culture
University of Michigan
Biography
Professor Douglas has been with the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan since 1996. She is the Department Chair and Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies. Professor Douglas has written many books including The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it has Undermined Women (with Meredith Michaels), Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media; Inventing American Broadcasting; and Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, which won the 2000 Sally Hacker Popular Book Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. Her column “Back Talk” appears in In These Times every month.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Susan Douglas. Listening In: Radio and the Imagination, from Amos and Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. Times Books, 1999
- Susan Douglas. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. John Hopkins University Press, 1987