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Rob MacDougall

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The Kitten Tea Party

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • April 15, 2010
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The Kitten Tea Party, by Pat Morris, at Morbid Anatomy.

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Square America

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • December 10, 2007
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“A gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography.” What’s the story behind 48 photos of women on late-night TV taken by a lonely photographer in 1957? Or the crazy 1970s swinger party? There are worlds within worlds in these pictures.

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Pornography of Regret

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 23, 2007
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The erotic appeal of the Lands’ End catalog?

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Ahoy-hoy! I am an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, where I teach United States history and study the history of information and communication. My current research involves the history of pseudoscience and crank invention. I'm using computational methods like text mining and adaptive filtering to trace the circulation of "wrong, bad, or weird" science in 19th-century America. The goal is to draw lessons for our own time about the ways communication networks shape the ideas we have and share.

I am the author of The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and several book chapters and articles. I also co-designed and directed Tecumseh Lies Here, an augmented reality game that commemorates and critiques the history of the War of 1812. And I co-host a bi-weekly podcast that explores the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s through the lens of the classic sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. I received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2004.

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