Michael Kackman Assistant Professor CMA 6.132, 1 University Station A0800 Department of Radio-TV-Film Austin, TX 78712-0108 University of Texas-Austin [email protected]

 Professional Experience

University of Texas-Austin, Department of Radio-Television-Film. A-0800 One University Station, Austin, TX 78712.

Fall, 2003 – present. Assistant Professor of Radio-Television-Film. Courses include History of Broadcasting; History of Radio and Television; Television Criticism; Television Theory and Analysis; Media, History, and Memory; Television Genres

DePaul University, Department of Communication. 2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago, IL 60614.

Fall, 1999 – Spring, 2003 — Assistant Professor of Communication. Courses include History of Broadcasting; Culture & Media; International Media; Introduction to Film; Television Genres; Documentary Film; Media, History, & Memory; New Technologies in Historical Context

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706. (608) 262-2543.

1994 — 1999 Teaching Assistant/Lecturer. Courses included Introduction to Video Production; Advanced Video Production; Introduction to Television; History of Broadcasting; Public Speaking.

University of Wisconsin-Baraboo, Department of Communication Arts, 1000 Connie Road, Baraboo, WI 53913.

Fall 1997 - Spring 1998 — Lecturer, Introduction to Public Speaking.

 Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. in Media & Cultural Studies, 2000. Department of Communication Arts. Areas of specialization include cultural studies, television criticism and history, media historiography, gender studies, critical race studies, nationalism and globalism.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A. in Media & Cultural Studies, 1995. Department of Communication Arts.

Emerson College, B.F.A. in Film Production, 1994. Department of Mass Communication. High Academic Honors, Honors Program.

 Grants

University of Texas-Austin

Summer Research Assignment, 2006 ($8000)

University Special Research Travel Grant, Fall 2004 ($750)

―TEAM: Teaching Educators About Media Project,‖ University of Texas UTOPIA educational outreach grant ($2000)

Grants for students under my supervision:

Graduate Editorial Fellowship, 2008-2009 ($16,000 for graduate students under my editorial supervision working for flowtv.org)

Undergraduate Mentor Program , Spring 2009 (three undergraduates @ $800 each, one graduate student @$8000)

DePaul University

Undergraduate Research Assistant Grant, 2002

Liberal Arts & Sciences Summer Research Grant, 2000

Research Council Grant, 2000

 Honors & Awards

University of Texas-Austin

Jones Summer Research Fellowship, Summer 2004 ($5000)

College of Communication Dean‘s Fellowship, Fall 2006 (semester leave)

Reddick Research Fellowship, Summer 2009 ($5000)

DePaul University

DePaul University Dean‘s Fellowship, Fall 2002 (semester leave)

NEH Critical Race Studies Fellow, DePaul University, 2002

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University Fellow and Steenbock Research Fellow, UW-Madison, Graduate School, 1998.

Wickhem Graduate Academic Award, UW-Madison, Dept. of Communication Arts, 1997.

McCarty Graduate Award, UW-Madison, Dept. of Communication Arts, 1996 & 1997.

Arnon Milchan Production Grant, Emerson College, 1993-4. Awarded to outstanding BFA candidate in film production.

Presidential Scholar and Dean‘s Writing Prize, Emerson College, 1994.

Lambda Pi Eta, Communications Honor Society, 1994.

 Publications

Books in Print

Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Nationalism, University of Minnesota Press. 2005.

Books in Preparation

Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Payne, Allison Perlman, and Bryan Sebok, editors. Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence, NY: Routledge, 2010 (August, 2010 publication date).

Pan-Am Cowboys: Hoppy & Cisco from B Westerns to Global Television (forthcoming, University of Texas Press)

Refereed Journal Articles

―‗Nothing On But Hoppy Badges‘: Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd Enterprises, and Emergent Media Globalization.‖ Cinema Journal 47:4, Summer 2008. p. 76-101.

―Citizen, Communist, Counterspy: I Led 3 Lives and Television‘s Masculine Historical Subject.‖ Cinema Journal, Fall 1998. p. 98-114.

Book Chapters

―American Cowboys in Paris: Childrens Westerns and Emergent Media Globalization,‖ Television: The Experimental Moment, Gilles Delavaux, editor. (forthcoming) (also to be published in translation as ―Cow-boys américains à Paris: les westerns pour enfants et les débuts de la globalisation des Médias‖)

Encyclopedia Entries

“Cooking Shows,” Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd edition. Horace Newcomb, ed. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Book Reviews

Book Review. Gary Edgerton, The Columbia History of American Television, NY: Columbia, 2007. Journal of American History, September, 2009. p. 126.

Book Review. Lynne Joyrich, Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. The Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Television and Film Studies, Fall 1998.

Other Writing

―Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity‖, FlowTV.org, Vol 9, issue 2, October 2008.

―Collaboration, Community, and Interdisciplinarity‖ FlowTV.org, Vol 5, issue 13, November, 2006.

―Stars on the Tarmac: 1950s Air Travel & the Global Commodity Intertext,‖ In Media Res, November, 2007.

 Invited Lectures

―‗Nothing On But Hoppy Badges‘: Hopalong Cassidy and Early Television‘s Transnational Transmedia Texts.‖ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, October 2006.

―Containment Redux: Alias, 24, and the New Cold War,‖ Northwestern University, Department of Screen Cultures colloquium, October, 2002.

―Citizenship, Television, and 9/11 Politics‖ Wayne State University, Department of Communication colloquium, April, 2002.

 Refereed Conference Presentations

―Don‘t They Know It‘s the End of the World? Mad Men, Quality TV, and a Complex Past,‖ Console-ing Passions Television and Media Studies Conference, Santa Barbara, April, 2010.

―Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Los Angeles, March 2010.

―American Cowboys in Paris: Childrens Westerns and Emergent Media Globalization,‖ Television: The Experimental Moment Conference, Paris, France, May, 2009.

Quality Television, Lost and Found: Gender and Cultural Value in Formalist Television Studies,‖ Console-ing Passions Television and Media Studies Conference, Santa Barbara, April, 2008.

“6000 Letters From Ghana: The Global Reception of a B-Western Star,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Philadelphia, March 2008.

―Pan-Am Cowboys: Children‘s Westerns & Emergent Media Globalization,‖ American Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 2007.

―Selling Difference: The Cisco Kid, 1950s Television, and Media Globalization,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 2007.

―The Pan-American Cowboys: Internationally Syndicated Television Westerns in the 1950s,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.

―Making the White House a Home: Commander in Chief, Family Melodrama, and Television Authorship,‖ Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism and Television, Video, New Media, and Audio. Milwaukee, WI, May 2006.

―A Star Without a Country: Duncan Renaldo, Cisco Kid, and Televisual Citizenship,‖ Cultural Studies Association, Washington, DC, April, 2006.

―American Cowboys in Cuba: William Boyd Productions and Early Television‘s Transnational Transmedia Texts,‖ Cultural Studies Association, Tucson, May 2005.

―The Transnational Audiences of Iron Chef,‖ Console-ing Passions: The International Conference of Feminism and Television, Video, New Media, and Audio. New Orleans, May 2004.

―Fukui-San, A la Cuisine!, or, Why Backdraft Makes Me Think of Yellow Peppers,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, March 2004.

―In Defense of Failure: Television Historiography and the Pitfalls of Popularity,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2003.

―Espionage TV and ―America‘s New War,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May, 2002.

―‗Documentary Melodrama‘: 1950s Spy Television and the Cultivation of Civic Nationalism,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, DC, May 24-27, 2001.

―Bureaucrats, Agents, or Fools: Spy Parodies & the Limits of Agency,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago IL, March 9-12, 2000.

―I Spy a Colorblind Nation: Racial Integration, the Cold War, and American Paternalism.‖ Paper presented at the American Studies Association 1998 Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 19-22, 1998.

―Grains of Truth: Spy Photography, Home Movies, and the Realist Aesthetic of Film Grain.‖ Paper presented at the Five Rivers Film Studies Conference, Missoula, MT, September 17-20 1998.

―Postcolonial Border Guards: The United States Information Agency, Civil Rights, and Pan- Africanism.‖ Presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, CA, April 4-7, 1998.

―Cold War Gazes: Television Spies and Ethnic Difference.‖ Presented at the 18th annual Ohio University Film Conference, Athens, OH, November 6-8, 1997.

―Citizen, Communist, Counterspy: I Led 3 Lives and Television‘s Masculine Historical Subject.‖ Presented at the Console-ing Passions Television and Feminist Criticism Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 1-4, 1997.

―Spotting Secret Agents on the Global Screen: Mission: Impossible and National Identity.‖ Presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 15-18, 1997.

―Walls of Fear: Surveillance, Automation, and the Performance of the Suburban Home.‖ Presented at the International Communications Association Conference, Communication and Technology Division, May 23-27, 1996, Chicago, IL, June 1996.

―Riding the Fences of the Home on the Range: 1950s American TV Westerns and the Crisis of Masculinity.‖ Presented at Console-ing Passions Television and Feminist Studies Conference, Madison, WI, May 1996.

―Abortion Rights Discourse: Strategies and Tactics.‖ Presented at the Speech Communications Association Conference, Miami, FL, November, 1993.

 Invited Roundtable Discussions

―Mass, Mainstream, and the Practices of TV History,‖ ―Television and the Mainstream‖ Roundtable, Flow Conference, Austin, 2008.

―It‘s Not About TV, and It Never Was,‖ Unboxing Television – MIT Futures of Entertainment Conference; MIT, Cambridge, Nov. 2007.

―Television as 'Cultural Center' in an Age of Audience Segmentation,‖ Roundtable, Flow Conference, Austin, 2008.

Invited participant, co-author of winning case study. International Radio and Television Society Foundation Faculty/Industry Seminar; New York, November, 2004.

―Whose Redemption: US Prison Films and the Indulgence of Liberal Guilt,‖ Locked Away: Critiquing the U.S. Prison System through Story and Text, DePaul University Humanities Center, Chicago, IL. October 7, 2000.

 Refereed Roundtable Discussions

―Go With the Flow: Innovative Forms of Public Scholarship Online‖ workshop panelist, ―The Public Intellectual in the 21st Century,‖Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.

Workshop Chair, ―The Practice of Television History: Methods and Resources,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, DC, May 24-27, 2001.

 Additional Conference Presentations

Panel Chair, ―Transnational Hollywood,‖ Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2006.

Panel Chair, ―Media, Nationalism, and September 11,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Denver, CO, May, 2002.

Panel Chair, ―The Politics of Parody,‖ Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago IL, March 9-12, 2000.

Panel Chair, ―The Business of Televisual Blackness: the Other and the Alien.‖ Society for Cinema Studies Conference, West Palm Beach, FL, April 15-18, 1999.

 Professional Organizations

Society for Cinema & Media Studies, 1996-present.

American Studies Association, 1997-1999, 2007-present.

Midwest American Studies Association, 1999-2003.

 Professional Service

Faculty Supervisor, Flow: An Online Forum on Television and Media Culture, 2003 – 2009

Conference Host, Flow Conference, November 2006

Founding Board Member & Steering Committee, Television Studies Interest Group, Society for Cinema & Media Studies, 1996-1998.

Chair, SCMSTV Working Group on Historic Television Preservation, 1996-1998.

Manuscript review, University of Texas Press; Routledge / Taylor & Francis;

 University of Texas Service Appointments

Departmental: Graduate Studies Committee, 2003-present

Scholarship Committee, 2009

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2006-2007

Teaching Excellence Committee, 2006-2007

Flow Conference Coordinator, 2006

Media Library Planning Committee, 2005-2006

Grievance Committee, 2005-2006

Facilities & Technology Committee, 2005-2006

MFA Program Committee, 2005-2006

Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2004-2005

Race, Ethnicity & Media hiring Committee, 2004-2005

College: Commencement Marshal, 2008

University: American Studies Affiliated Faculty, 2006-present

Outstanding MA Thesis/Report Award Committee, 2006

 DePaul University Service Appointments

Departmental: Co-chair, BFA Planning Committee

Founder/Advisor, DePaul FilmArts Alliance

Conference Host, Independent Filmmakers Project Annual Conference, Fall 2001

Personnel Review Process Committee

Personnel Committee, Spring 2001

WRDP Advisory Board

Undergraduate Program Committee

Chair, Appointments Committee (1999-2000)

College: American Studies Program Committee

University: New Media Studies Development Committee

IS Program Review Subcommittee for Experiential Learning

 Media Production and Other Activities

Editorial Board, The Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Television and Film Studies, 1997-1998.

Director and Producer, Stuffed Animals, a 25 minute documentary video about taxidermy, 1995.

Director and Executive Producer, The Claim, a 30-minute 16mm narrative film, 1994.

Videotheque Curator, Console-ing Passions Media Studies Conference, 1996.

Multimedia Director, The Satellite as Witness: Lisa Parks Watches the Bosnian War from Outer Space, Paper Tiger Television 1998.

Lighting Director, Robert McChesney Takes On Media Globalization, Paper Tiger Television, 1997.

Managing Editor, Latent Image. A New England undergraduate journal of film and media criticism, published by Emerson College, 1992-1994.

 Graduate Student Supervision

Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisor

Avi Santo (co-chair) (RTF) Summer, 2006

Juan de Dios Pinon (co-chair) (RTF) Summer, 2007

Giovanni Nichole Willis (co-chair) (RTF) Summer, 2007

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member

Hector Amaya (RTF) Spring, 2003

Cynthia Meyers (RTF) Spring, 2005

Deborah Jaramillo (RTF) Spring, 2006

Richard Gray (French & Italian) Spring, 2006

Jennifer Petersen (RTF) Summer, 2006

Allison Perlman (American Studies) Spring, 2007

Bryan Sebok (RTF) Summer, 2007

Sharon Shahaf (RTF) Summer, 2009

Benjamin Lisle (American Studies) Spring, 2010

Clare Croft (Theater & Dance) Spring, 2010

Jamie Jesson (English) Spring, 2010

Assem Nasr (RTF) Summer, 2010

Tariq Elseewi (RTF) Summer, 2010

Kristen Warner (RTF) Summer, 2010

Brandi DeMont (French & Italian / in progress Foreign Lang. Ed.)

Elissa Nelson (RTF) in progress

David Uskovich (RTF) in progress

Matthew Thomas Payne (RTF) in progress

Kevin Sanson (RTF) in progress

Anne Helen Peterson (RTF) in progress

Laura Simmons (RTF) in progress

MA Thesis Supervisor (all RTF)

Elia Cornelio Mari Spring, 2005

Elizabeth Hansen Summer, 2007

Nick Muntean Summer, 2007

Elizabeth Hansen Spring, 2008

Tiffany Henning Spring, 2009

Mabel Rosenheck Spring, 2010

Racquel Gonzales Summer, 2010

Rebecca McInroy in progress

Carolina Hernandez in progress

Paul Gansky in progress

Todd Thompson in progress

MA Thesis Reader (all RTF)

Hollis Griffin Spring, 2005

Leslie Delassus Spring, 2006

David Gurney Spring, 2006

Nicholas Marx Summer, 2006

Kristen Grant Summer, 2006

Julia Price Baron Spring, 2007

Ian Peters Spring, 2007

Joanna Slimmer Spring 2007

Steve Reddicliffe Summer, 2010

Allen Lindig in progress

Sarah Murray in progress

Charlotte Howell in progress

 Courses Taught at University of Texas-Austin

Fall, 2003 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

RTF-385 History of Broadcasting (graduate seminar)

Spring, 2004 RTF-335 Television Analysis & Criticism (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive, Communication & Culture)

RTF-385 Television Theory & Criticism (graduate seminar)

Summer, 2004 RTF-335 Television Genres (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive)

Fall, 2004 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

Spring, 2005 RTF-359s Media, Memory, & History (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive)

RTF-386c Media, History, & Collective Memory (graduate seminar)

Fall, 2005 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

RTF-385 History of Broadcasting (graduate seminar)

Spring, 2006 RTF-335 Television Analysis & Criticism (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive, Communication & Culture)

RTF-385 Television Theory & Criticism (graduate seminar)

Fall, 2006 Dean‘s Fellowship – academic leave

Spring, 2007 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

RTF-389k Cold War Media Culture (graduate seminar)

Fall, 2007 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

RTF-385 History of Broadcasting (graduate seminar)

Spring, 2008 RTF-335 Media & Cultural Criticism: Television (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive)

Fall, 2008 RTF-335 Television Genres (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive)

RTF-385 Television Theory & Criticism (graduate seminar)

Spring, 2009 RTF-316 History of US Radio & Television (lower-division undergraduate)

RTF-386c Media, History, & Collective Memory (graduate seminar)

Fall, 2009 RTF-359s Media, Memory, & History (upper-division undergraduate; Writing Intensive)

RTF-385 History of Broadcasting (graduate seminar)

Spring, 2010 RTF-386c Cold War Culture (graduate seminar)

RTF-359 American Culture of the Cold War

Fall, 2010 RTF-385 Television Theory & Criticism (graduate seminar)

UGS-302 The Popular Past: History & Memory in Everyday Culture (undergraduate Signature Seminar)