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Matthew Lasar

Matthew Lasar   
Matthew Lasar
    Title:  Lecturer
    Type:  Lecturer
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  ml@lasarletter.net
    Phone:  (831) 459-5593 Office
(831) 459-2555 Message
    Office:  280 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Thursdays, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Courses Taught 
History 110E: U.S. History from 1877 to 1914

History 10B: U.S. History from 1877 to 1987

History 117: Wired Nation: Broadcasting and Telecommunications in the United States from the Telegraph to the Internet

Research Focus 
19th and 20th Century U.S. economic, social, and political history, history of broadcasting, telecommunications, and U.S. corporations

Education History 
Ph.D, Claremont Graduate School (now University)

Selected Publications 
Uneasy Listening: Pacifica Radio's Civil War, London: Black Apollo Press, 2005.

Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999; Robert Dawidoff, series editor; updated edition in paperback, 2000

"Lewis Hill," "KPFA," and "The Pacifica Foundation," in The Encyclopedia of Radio Routledge, 2004.

"Pacifica Radio's Crisis of Containment," in McCauley, Artz, Halleck, and Peterson, eds., Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest, New York: M.E. Sharpe, December, 2002.

"Right out in public": Pacifica Radio, the Cold War, and the Political Origins of Alternative Media", Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67, Number 4, November 1998.

"Hybrid Highbrow: KPFA's Reconstruction of Elite Culture, 1942-1960," The Journal of Radio Studies, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter, 1998.

"The Triumph of the Visual: Stages and Cycles in the Pornography Controversy from the McCarthy Era to the Present," The Journal of Policy History, Volume 7, No. 2, 1995.