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Associate Professor听Josh Shepperd is the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Media Studies. Pulling from political baby直播app, Birmingham, and Foucauldian traditions, Josh researches institutional genealogies of 20th century U.S. media culture.
He is author of听Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting听(University of Illinois Press), which received the 2024 BEA Book Award and placed as a runner-up or finalist for the AJHA, AEJMC History, and New Deal book awards. Josh is currently co-writing the History of Public Media for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Current, and is working on two new books. The first looks at the origins of research and development techniques in U.S. radio, television, and digital industries, and the second examines public and popular reception to the introduction of automated labor between 1890 and 1930. He is additionally founding Associate Editor of听Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture听(University of California Press).
Josh designs national public-facing research and applied policy projects for the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board and Recorded Sound Section. He鈥檚 director of the LOC鈥檚 Radio Preservation Task Force, Sound Submissions Project, and serves as senior baby直播app advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation.