Amanda Frisken

Job title: 

Professor, American Studies

Graduate Director, M.A. in Liberal Studies

American Studies/Media & Communications

Phone: 

(516)876-4853

E-mail: 

friskena [at] oldwestbury [dot] edu

Building: 

New Academic Building

Room: 

3013

Office hours: 

• Mondays & Wednesdays: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Courses taught: 

• American People I and II
• American Studies Seminar
• The Civil War and Reconstruction
• The Emergence of Modern America
• Introduction to Interdisciplinary Study (MALS core seminar)
• Problems in U.S. Environmental History
• Research in U.S. History and Culture
• Topics in U.S. History/“Struggles for Justice” (MAT seminar) 
• U.S. Social Movements

Education: 

• Ph.D., Department of History, Stony Brook University, New York
• M.S., Department of History, Stony Brook University, New York
• Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, Stony Brook University, New York
• B.A., Department of History, McGill University, Montréal, Canada 

Research interests: 

• Nineteenth-century American History
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Cultural History
• Visual Culture
• Women’s and Gender Studies

Select publications & presentations: 

• Sensationalism and Modern Culture (book manuscript in progress)
• Co-editor, with Lisa Arellano and Erica Ball, Reconsidering Gender, Violence and the State, a special issue of Radical History Review, Volume 2016, Number 126 (Fall 2016)
• ‘A Song Without Words’: Anti-Lynching Images in the 1890s African American Press.” Journal of African American History Vol. 97, No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 240-269. 
• Obscenity, Free Speech and ‘Sporting News’ in 1870s America (Journal of American Studies, 42 (December 2008): 537-577.
• Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)