Michael J. Kramer is a historian, writer, teacher, dramaturg, and editor. His work focuses especially on modern United States cultural and intellectual history and he is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013). He teaches history and American studies at Northwestern University, where he is the co-founder of NUDHL, the Northwestern University Digital Humanities Laboratory. He has written for numerous publications and blogs about art, history, politics, and more at Culture Rover.