Michael Kackman
Assistant Professor
E-mail: mkackman@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-7194
Ph.D., Media & Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin, 2000.
Michael Kackman's primary teaching and research interests include the history of US broadcasting, American national culture and identity, the relationship of film and television to US foreign policy, and popular history and memory practices. He is the author of Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture, published by the University of Minnesota Press, a cultural and industrial history of US television espionage programs of the 1950s and 1960s. His work has also been published in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, and the Encyclopedia of Television. He is currently researching the development of international syndication practices for the children's Western Hopalong Cassidy in the 1950s, and is co-writing a book on television historiography.
Michael is also the faculty supervisor for Flow, a critical forum on television and media culture edited by graduate students in the department of Radio-TV-Film. Flow bridges the gap between traditional academic publishing and electronic forums, combining timely short articles by leading media scholars with lively discussions of our media landscape.
