Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman

Editor-in-Chief and Guest Posts Editor Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity at USC. Her dissertation, “The Contours of the Sonic Color-Line: Slavery, Segregation, and the Cultural Politics of Listening” was a 2007 finalist for the American Studies Association Dissertation Prize. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Music Studies and has published in The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Social Identities, and Social Text; her essay on Blackboard Jungle, the cold war, and the early cultural history of tape recording is forthcoming in American Quarterly (September 2011).  Currently Assistant Professor at SUNY Binghamton, Jennifer teaches courses on African American literature and race and gender representation in popular music and is Director of the Binghamton University Sound Studies Collective.  She is also co-editing an anthology on “The Politics of Recorded Sound” with Gustavus Stadler.  Jennifer is pleasantly obsessed with old high fidelity test records, Tony Schwartz’s recordings of NYC, and the many many ways people define “noise.”  During 2011-2012, she’ll be a fellow at The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, participating in the research group on Sound: Culture, Theory, Politics.