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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public history, digital humanities, and cultural criticism. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport. His website can be found at michaeljkramer.net. (43 words)

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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public history, digital humanities, and cultural criticism. He is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the director of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. He is currently working on a short history of the 1976 United States bicentennial celebrations; a study of the surprising relationship between folk music, technology, and cultural democracy in the United States; and an edited collection of essays by the countercultural social critic Theodore Roszak. Future research explores the history of arts and culture criticism in America; examines 1970s contemporary dance outside New York City; looks at the history of democratic socialism in the United States prior to the rise of Bernie Sanders; tracks the many ghosts of Abraham Lincoln in American culture; and probes the legacies of artistic exchanges between Brazil and the US. Kramer maintains a blog of cultural criticism, Culture Rover, and edits The Carryall, an online journal of US cultural and intellectual history. More information can be found at michaeljkramer.net. (199 words)

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Michael J. Kramer (PhD, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006) is an associate professor of history at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport campus. He specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public history, digital humanities, and cultural criticism. He is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013), and the director of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. He is currently working on a short history of the 1976 United States bicentennial celebrations; a study of the surprising relationship between folk music, technology, and cultural democracy in the United States; and an edited collection of essays by the countercultural social critic Theodore Roszak. Future research explores the history of arts and culture criticism in America; examines 1970s contemporary dance outside New York City; looks at the history of democratic socialism in the United States prior to the rise of Bernie Sanders; tracks the many ghosts of Abraham Lincoln in American culture; and probes the legacies of artistic exchanges between Brazil and the US. Kramer maintains a blog of cultural criticism, Culture Rover, and edits The Carryall, an online journal of US cultural and intellectual history. Kramer has received fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woody Guthrie Center/BMI Foundation, the Music Library Association, the Society for American Music, SF Heritage, the Mellon Foundation-funded Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, and the Southern Folklife Collection at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library. He has written for publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Salon, First of the Month, The National Memo, The Point, Theater, Newsday, Afterimage, Clio & the Contemporary, History@Work, and the Society for US Intellectual History Book Review. He has a background in journalism, museum work, and dance and theater dramaturgy. More information can be found at michaeljkramer.net. (324 words)

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