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James W. Cook
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Other U of M Affiliation:
Program in American Culture
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1759 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-763-7860
E-mail:
jwcook@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
19th and 20th-century U.S. history; cultural history and American studies; popular/mass culture; culture and capitalism; race and ethnicity; visual culture, African-American cultural history.
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Homepage:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/james.w.cook/home |
Biography:
Jay Cook received a B.A. in European History and Cultural Studies from Princeton University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of California-Berkeley in 1996. He has taught at the University of Michigan since 2001.
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Selected Publications:
The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present & Future (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=318165
The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like it in the Universe! (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005). http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f05/barnum.html
The Arts of Deception: Playing With Fraud in the Age of Barnum (Harvard
University Press, 2001). http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COOART.html
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