Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Kathryn Cramer Brownell is professor of history and director of the Center for American Political History, Media, and Technology (CAPT) at Purdue University. She is author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life (UNC Press, 2014) and 24/7Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News (Princeton University Press, 2023), which won the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize Award from the American Historical Association and the PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies from the Association of American Publishers. She also serves as Senior Editor for the “Made By History” column at TIME Magazine.