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Michael J. Kramer, PHD
- Associate Professor
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(585) 395-5689
mkramer@brockport.edu
Office: Fannie Barrier Williams Bldg 319
Website
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- BA, Columbia University
Areas of Specialty
- Modern US and the World
- Cultural History
- Intellectual History
- Public History
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Editing
- Arts Criticism
Courses Taught
Surveys
- United States History: From Contact to the Present
- Modern America: United States History Since 1865
- The United States Since 1893
- The United States Since 1929
- Postwar America: United States History Since 1945
- Recent American History: The United States, 1970-Now
- African American History: An Introduction
Methods Courses
- Public History
- Oral History
- Digital History
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Scholarly Editing
- Situation Critical: Writing Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age
- Reading and Writing Across Forms
- United States Cultural History
- United States Intellectual History
- Approaches to American Studies
- Introduction to Cultural Analysis
- Hearing the Past: Approaches to Sound History
- Feeling the Past: Approaches to Sensory History
- The History of History: Methodologies of Historical Inquiry
Topics Courses
- The Computerized Society: History of the Computer in the USA
- Digitizing Folk Music History
- The Fannie Barrier Williams Project: Studying the Life, Times, and Legacies of Brockport’s Antiracist and Feminist Activist
- Popular Culture and American History: From Barnum to Beyoncé
- US Popular Music History
- The Sixties in the US and the World
- The Vietnam War
- American Culture in Global Circulation, 1776-2001
- Modern Transatlantic History
- Getting and Spending: A History of Consumerism in America
- Citizenship in Historical Perspective
- Angelheaded Hipsters: Bohemianism in America
- Community in the United States: History of a Concept and Practice
- The 1619 Project Project
- Eleven Strikes: United States Labor History
Internship/Experiential Learning Courses
- Public History Internship Practicum
- The Challenge of the Citizen-Scholar: Scholarly Civic Engagement Practicum
- The American Mind—What Were They Thinking?: US Intellectual History Seminar and Digital Scholarly Editing Practicum
Current Book Project
- Wave That Flag: The 1976 US Bicentennial Celebrations
Upcoming Book Projects
- The Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the American Folk Music Revival Out West
- This Machine Kills Fascists: Folk Music, Technology, and Cultural Democracy in the USA
- In an American Key: Arts Criticism in the United States
- Improvising Identities: American Contemporary Dance Outside New York City in the 1970s
- Before Bernie: An Intellectual History of Democratic Socialism in the USA
- A Tiny Banner Against the Inhumanities: The Selected Writings of Countercultural Social Critic Theodore Roszak, co-edited with Peter Richardson
Public History Projects
- The Carryall: US Cultural & Intellectual History Online Journal
- Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project
- West Coast Folk Revival Museum Exhibition
- Fannie Barrier Williams Project
- Writers Forum: Fifty Years of Literary Visits at SUNY Brockport
- Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane at SUNY Brockport
- Digital Historytelling: Connecting Media Production to Historical Inquiry in a University Curriculum
- SUNY HistoryLab: Connecting SUNY Historical Inquiry to Civic Education in New York State
Digital Humanities Project
- Glitchworks: Speculative Digital Humanities Tactics for Historical Inquiry
Peer-Reviewed Essays In Progress
- Mance Lipscomb’s Silhouette: Race, Region, Expertise, and Inquiry at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Curating for Change: The Work That Music Festivals Do in the World, Eric Fillon and Ajay Heble (Temple University Press, forthcoming 2026)
- Fannie Barrier Williams Remembers Brockport: The Uses of Place Memory in the Progressive Era, Re-Placing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, , Kevin Sheets and Randi Storch (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2026)
- Making the Past Tense: The Seldoms Dance with History in the Power Trilogy, Dancing on the Third Coast: Chicago Dance Histories, Lizzie Leopold and Susan Manning (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2026)
- Epilogue: Unsettling—Reflections on Design in the Bay Area Counterculture, Design Radicals: Spaces of Bay Area Counterculture, eds. Greg Castillo and Lee Stickells (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2026)
- Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual History (to be submitted to Modern Intellectual History, 2026)
- Notes on Glasgow’s Past: The Tenementals Research a City’s History Through Musical Creation (commissioned by History and Theory, 2026)
- The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Origins of the Culture Wars in the 1976 American Bicentennial (to be submitted to Journal of American History, 2026)
- Shot Heard Round the World: The International Celebrations of the US Bicentennial (to be submitted to American Historical Review, 2026)
- True Lover’s Knot: Computational Approaches to the Folk Music Ballad “Barbara Allen” (to be submitted to Information and Culture, 2027)
- Deindustrializing Modern Dance: Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane in Western New York (to be submitted to Dance Research Journal, 2027)
- Journey to Humbeads: Humbead’s Revised Map of the World and the West Coast Folk Revival Imaginary (to be submitted to American Music, 2027)
- Seizures of Feeling: An Affective Theory of Social Change (to be submitted to History and Theory, 2027)