Susan Smulyan

Susan Smulyan is Professor, Department of American Studies, at Brown University and recently resigned from being the Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. She is the editor of a new collection, Doing  Public Humanities, and author of Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting and Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century, and co-editor (with Kathy Franz, NMAH, Smithsonian) of Major Problems in American Popular Culture. She regularly teaches courses in the history of advertising, public humanities, including the Methods in Public Humanities class, and in American cultural history. As Director of the Center for Public Humanities, she ran an MA Program in Public  Humanities and collaborated with a range of community partners on projects including Rhode Tour, a set of stories about Rhode Island. She is a past board chair of New Urban Arts, a nationally- recognized community arts studio for high school students and emerging artists in Providence, Rhode Island.