An Associate Professor of History, Dawn Spring is also an independent designer and scholar dedicated to engaging popular audiences in history through digital history, digital humanities and entertainment, as well as utilizing new media and technolog
...MoreAn Associate Professor of History, Dawn Spring is also an independent designer and scholar dedicated to engaging popular audiences in history through digital history, digital humanities and entertainment, as well as utilizing new media and technology to teach history. Spring teaches Native American and United States History exclusively online. She holds a PhD and MA in United States History from the University of Cincinnati and an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research. She has worked with Theater for the New City and The Living Theatre, created interactive media with the Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites (CERHAS) at the University of Cincinnati's world renowned College of Design Architecture Art and Planning, DAAP, and participated in the NEH's first Humanities Gaming Institute. Her first book Advertising in the Age of Persuasion: Building Brand America, 1941-1961 was published in November 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan. Currently, in addition to teaching online, she is conducting research on Radio Free Europe at the Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
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Global Studies
