A. Craig Baird Professor

john-peters@uiowa.edu

PhD, Stanford University

149 Becker Communication Studies Building

319-353-2258

media history, social theory

John is interested in media and cultural history, communication and social theory, and understanding communication in its broad historical, legal, philosophical, religious, and technological context. He teaches large lecture undergraduate classes such as Core Concepts in Communication Studies and Media and Society, and smaller undergraduate courses such as Case Studies in Transnational Media. At the graduate level, he teaches seminars on critical theory, the history of mass communication theory, media and modernity, pragmatism, the public sphere, and transnational media.

Writings: johndurhampeters.wordpress.com/writings/

Selected works: works.bepress.com/john_peters/