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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, and cultural criticism. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport. His website can be found at michaeljkramer.net.
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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, and cultural criticism. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the director of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. He is currently working on a history of the 1976 United States bicentennial celebration and a study of folk music, technology, and cultural democracy in the United States. He maintains a blog of cultural criticism, Culture Rover. His website, with additional information about publications, projects, courses, talks, and more can be found at michaeljkramer.net.
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Michael J. Kramer (PhD, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006) is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport campus. He specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, and cultural criticism. He is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and directs the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. He is currently working on a history of the 1976 United States bicentennial celebration and a study of folk music, technology, and cultural democracy in the United States as well as a number of other projects. He maintains a blog of cultural criticism, Culture Rover and is the founder and editor of The Carryall: US Cultural & Intellectual History Forum, launching in 2024.
Kramer has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woody Guthrie Center/BMI Foundation, the Music Library Association, the Society for American Music, SF Heritage, the Mellon Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, and the Southern Folklife Collection at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, First of the Month, The National Memo, The Point, Theater, Newsday, Afterimage, Clio & the Contemporary, History@Work, and the Society for US Intellectual History Book Review. He has a background in journalism, museums, and dance and theater dramaturgy. More information about his work can be found at michaeljkramer.net.
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