Jason Loviglio is Director of Media & Communication Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies at UMBC. He teaches courses in media studies, popular culture, history, and multiculturalism. Loviglio received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1999. He is co-editor, with Michele Hilmes, of Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (Routledge, 2002) and is author of the forthcoming Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass Mediated Democracy ( University of Minnesota Press, published in 2005).

In 2003, Loviglio was awarded the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship by the Library of Congress and the American Historical Association to conduct research in the NBC archives at the Library of Congress.

As a member of its planning committee, Loviglio helped organize “The Radio Conference: A Transnational Exchange,” held in Madison Wisconsin in the summer of 2003, which brought together scholars, broadcasters, and media activists from all over the world. Loviglio is a founding member of the North American Radio Studies Network, a member of the international Radio Studies Network and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Radio Journal. He has been interviewed on several local public radio programs and has been an invited speaker on radio history at the University of Delaware’s History Workshop in Technology, Society, and Culture, and at UMBC’s Humanities Forum.

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