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I earned my PhD from the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow jointly appointed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and Northwestern University’s Department of Radio/Television/Film. I am interested in the relationships between culture, technology, and politics and the critical, historical study of our mediated worlds.
Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood changes are observed. But what does gentrifica…
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of …
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Ir…
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…