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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, 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.

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Michael J. Kramer specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, 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. Currently, he is working on two books: a study of technology in the US folk music revival from 1900 to the present and a history of the 1976 US Bicentennial celebration as well as a co-edited collection of countercultural critic Theodore Roszak’s selected essays. His website, with additional information about other publications and projects, can be found at michaeljkramer.net.

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Michael J. Kramer (PhD, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006) specializes in modern US cultural and intellectual history, transnational history, public and digital history, and cultural criticism. He is the author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013). Currently, he is at work on two book projects: “This Machine Kills Fascists: Technology and Folk Music in the USA,” a study of technology in the long history of the US folk music revival, and “Spirit of 76: The USA’s Bicentennial Celebration and the Redeclaration of America,” an examination of the 1976 American Bicentennial Celebrations. He directs the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, a digital public history investigation of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the 1960s folk music revival on the West Coast of the United States. Along with Peter Richardson, Kramer is also co-editing “A Tiny Banner,” a selection of essays by the social critic and historian Theodore Roszak.

In both his research and teaching, Kramer explores new methods in multimodal digital and public history as well as digital humanities. He co-directs the Fannie Barrier Williams Project at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport campus, where he is an associate professor in the Department of History. Kramer also oversees the SUNY HistoryLab, a collaborative virtual laboratory intended to connect historical inquiry in the SUNY system to the citizens of New York State more robustly. He also edits a new digital journal for both academic and general audiences, The Carryall: The US Cultural & Intellectual History Occasional.

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 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. He blogs about the arts, culture, history, politics, and more at Culture Rover.

Information about his research, teaching, and public scholarship can be found at michaeljkramer.net.

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