Projects: USC
Tona J. Hangen
Media, religion and culture, Religious studies, Technology and culture, 19th and 20th century US History
Tona Hangen is an Assistant Professor of History at Worcester State College
Robert B. Carey
Professor of history, mentor at Empire State College
Lynne Adrian
Member, American Studies Association. Member., Member Southeast American Studies Association., Treasurer, Southeast American Studies Association, Executive Committee, Southern American Studies Association, 1992 to present., President, Southern American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Representative, Southern American Studies Association, on Regional Chapters Committee, American Studies Association, 1997 to 1999., Vice President, Southern American Studies Association, 1996 to 1997
Pedagogy of American Studies, including teaching with technology., Disasters as revelatory of cultural values., Hoboes, 1885-1935., American Women's History
Lynne M. Adrian is Chair of the Department of American Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. She was a principle investigator in both the American Studies Crossroads Project, 1995-1998 and the Visible Knowledge Project, 2000-2005.
Anne Balsamo
Cultural Studies of Science and Technology, Feminist Theory, Interactive Media, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Engineering Design Research, Literacy Studies
ANNE BALSAMO serves as the Director of Academic Programs of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California. She is also a Full Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies. In addition to her academic positions, Anne has been a technologist and new media designer for more than a decade. In 2002, she co-founded, Onomy Labs, Inc. a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC who created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She held the rank of Principle Scientist, and served as project manager and new media designer for the development of RED's interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading. Prior to joining the research staff at PARC, Balsamo was an associate professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she directed the graduate program in "Information Design and Technology.� Her first book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke UP, 1996) investigated the social and cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies. Her new book project, Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination examines the relationship between cultural theory, the design of new media, and the ethics of technology development.
