- popp@uwm.edu
- Holton Hall 348
- CV
Richard Popp
- Associate Professor, History
Education
- PhD, Temple University
- MBA, Virginia Tech
- BA, Virginia Tech
Office Hours
Mondays 1-3 pm and by appointment
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title | Meets |
|---|---|---|
| HIST 449-201 | Popular Culture in America, 1800 to the Present | No Meeting Pattern |
| HIST 449G-201 | Popular Culture in America, 1800 to the Present | No Meeting Pattern |
| HIST 800-001 | Colloquium on U.S. History: Amazon and the Transformation of Consumer Culture | T 4pm-6:40pm |
Courses Taught
- Hist 271 - The 1960s in the United States - A Cultural History
- Hist 418 - America in Prosperity, Depression and War, 1921-1945
- Hist 449 - Popular Culture in America, 1800 - the Present
- Hist 596 - Maps as Historical Sources
- Hist 900 - Seminar on US History: The News Media in Modern America
Research Interests
- US cultural history
- Media and communication
- Capitalism
- Consumer Culture
Selected Publications
“'One Holistic System of Systems': Multinational Conglomerates and Technocratic Bigness in Late Postwar Culture," Journal of American History, 108, no. 2 (Sept. 2021): 320-347.
“The Information Bazaar: Mail-Order Magazines and the Consumer-Data Trade in Gilded Age America.” In Surveillance Capitalism in America: From Slavery to Social Media, ed. Josh Lauer and Kenneth Lipartito (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
"Media." In A Companion to the History of Information, ed. Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair, Anja Goeing, and Paul Duguid (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021).
“The Anywhere, Anytime Market: The 800-Number, Direct Marketing, and the New Networks of Consumer Capitalism,” Enterprise & Society, 19, no. 3 (September 2018), 702-732. - Honorable Mention - 2019 Philip Scranton Best Article Prize, Business History Conference
“Airline Advertising, Fear of Flight, and the Shaping of Popular Emotion,” Journal of Consumer Culture, 16, no. 1 (March 2016), 61-79.
“Information, Industrialization, and the Business of Press Clippings, 1880-1925.” Journal of American History, 101, no. 2 (Sept. 2014), 427-453.
“Cultural History and Media Studies.” In Blackwell’s International Companion to Media Studies: Research Methods in Media Studies, ed. Fabienne Darling-Wolf (Oxford: Blackwell, 2014).
The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar America. Louisiana State University Press, 2012. - Winner 2013 Book of the Year Award, American Journalism Historians Association.
Popp, Richard K.“Machine-Age Communication: Media, Transportation, and Contact in the Interwar United States” Technology & Culture 52.3 (2011): 459-484.