Amanda Frisken
Job title:
Acting Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Professor, American Studies
Phone:
(516)876-3915
E-mail:
friskena@oldwestbury.eduBuilding:
New Academic Building
Room:
1031
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:
- History of Journalism and Visual Culture
- Nineteenth-century American History
- The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- Women’s and Gender Studies
Select publications & presentations:
- Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth Century Journalism (University of Illinois Press, 2020)
- 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)
