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Sage Goodwin Co-Authors Piece for "The Conversation"

Sage Goodwin, postdoctoral fellow at CAPT, co-authored a recent piece for "The Conversation" with Oscar Winberg, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turku. Their work examines how today's TV networks remain even more vulnerable to political pressure than in years past.

 

Check out their piece by visiting this link.

The CAPT Hosts Seminar Series for Fall 2025

This Fall, the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) will host a seminar series featuring new research from scholars at Purdue and across the country. Faculty and graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts and across campus are invited to join these interdisciplinary conversations that examine the historical intersections of politics, media, and technology. Each seminar will take place on Mondays between 11:30am and 1:00pm in Beering Hall Room 6138. Lunch will be provided. Contact Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell (brownell@purdue.edu) for more details. 
This spring's line-up will include the following lectures:

• September 15, 2025: "When the Truth is not Enough: Exposing Corruption in an Era of Impunity," with Nicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt University
• October 6, 2025: "Behind the Headlines," a postdoctoral research discussion with Sage Goodwin and Hanna Sistek, CAPT at Purdue University
• November 17, 2025: "Back to Barnard, 1982: Media Technology and the Politics of Desire," with Fred Turner, Stanford University
• December 1, 2025: "Do Your Own Research: How Online Communities Produce Evidence for False and Fringe Beliefs," with Alice Marwick, Director of Research at Data & Society

Hanna Sistek Joins CAPT as a Post-Doctoral Fellow

Hanna Sistek joins the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Hanna comes to the CAPT from Purdue University's Department of Political Science, where she earned her Ph.D. She will continue to pursue research on how emerging technologies and digitization of the public sphere influence democratic governance in the Western world.

 

To learn more about Hanna, visit this link.

CAPT Welcomes Post-Doctoral Fellow Sage Goodwin

The Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) welcomes Sage Goodwin as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She is a scholar of twentieth-century media, race, and protest. She comes to the CAPT from the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, where she was previously a Post-Doctoral Fellow. 

 

To learn more about Sage, visit this link.

Dr. Andrew Bellisari Publishes "How We Oversimplified the History of the Vietnam War" for TIME's "Made By History"

Andrew Bellisari, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Fellow at the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) is author of a recent piece in Time Magazine's "Made by History." Bellisari's article, which explores the memory and legacy of the complex Vietnam War and its many different narratives, was presented and workshopped with faculty and graduate students as part of the CAPT's spring seminar series on April 7, 2025.

 

Check out the article by visiting this link.

The CAPT at Purdue University Co-Sponsors a Congressional Briefing for the AHA

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, the Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) at Purdue University co-sponsored a Congressional Briefing about the United States House of Representatives on behalf of the American Historical Association (AHA). The CAPT's founder and director, Kathryn Cramer Brownell, joined Matthew Green (Catholic University) and Rachel Shelden (Pennsylvania State University) on a panel at the Rayburn House Office Building, to discuss how the structure, membership, and culture of the United States House of Representatives has evolved over time.

The CAPT Launches Seminar Series for Spring 2025

This spring, the newly established Center for American Political History and Technology (CAPT) will host a seminar series featuring new research from scholars at Purdue and across the country. Faculty and graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts and across campus are invited to join these interdisciplinary conversations that examine the historical intersections of politics, media, and technology. Each seminar will take place on Mondays between 11:30am and 1:00pm in Beering Hall Room 6138. Lunch will be provided. Contact Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell (brownell@purdue.edu) for more details. 
This spring's line-up will include the following lectures:

• January 27, 2025: "The Obstacle and Opportunity of Writing a 'Useable Past': On Chronicling the Classroom Culture Wars as They Happen with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School
• February 17, 2025: "Detroit as a Carceral Space: Documenting Police Violence and Community Activism through Research Collaborations" with Matthew Lassiter, University of Michigan
• April 7, 2025: "The Fall of Saigon and the End of History" with Andrew Bellisari, Purdue University