Michael Schudson

Background

He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College, his Master of Arts

Education

And Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard in sociology.

Career

He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is an expert in the fields such as journalism history, media sociology, political communication, and public culture. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1976-1980 and the University of California, San Diego 1980-2009.

From 2006-2009, he was on the faculty of both University of California-San Diego and Columbia.

He has been working full-time at Columbia since 2009. On being named a MacArthur Fellow in 1990, the Foundation identified him as “an interpreter of public culture and of collective or civic memory." He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen in 2014.

Achievements

• Schudson has received major awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a residential fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.

Works

• book

  • The Sociology of News by Schudson, Michael W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 ( Paperback ) Paperback
  • By Michael Schudson - The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (Reprint) (12.2.2010)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • The Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life Hardcover - September 20, 1998

    (New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)

  • The Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life by Michael Schudson (2011-01-01)
  • The Power of News by Michael Schudson (1996-09-01)
  • Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers by Michael Schudson (1981-02-13)
  • The Sociology of News (Second Edition) (Contemporary Societies Series) by Schudson, Michael(October 17, 2011) Paperback
  • Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press by Michael Schudson (2008-11-03)
  • Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact On American Society by Michael Schudson (1986-09-03)
  • Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past by Michael Schudson (1993-11-17)
  • Sociology of the News Media (Contemporary Sociology (New York, N.Y.).) by Michael Schudson (2003-04-08)

Membership

American Academy of Arts and Sciences.