Participant Info
- First Name
- Madeline
- Last Name
- Steiner
- Country
- United States
- State
- SC South Carolina
- steinem@email.sc.edu
- Affiliation
- University of South Carolina
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Popular Culture, Capitalism, Business, Circus, Minstrel Show, Entertainment, Media Studies, Gilded Age, 19th Century, 20th Century
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Carolina. My work combines the history of the entertainment industry with the history of Gilded Age business and capitalism. My current book project is a study of the traveling amusement industry at the turn of the twentieth century including circuses, minstrel shows, and Wild West shows and emphasizes how the owners and managers of these shows established business practices that were integral to the rise of the modern commercial entertainment industry in the United States. I aim to highlight the business side of show business.
- Recent Publications
Scholarly Publications:
“The ‘Amusement Economist:’ J.H. Haverly and the Modernization of the American Minstrel Show.” The Journal of American Culture 41 no. 3 (September 2018): 297-309.
Other:
“The Historical Reality Behind the Psychics and Swindlers in ‘Nightmare Alley,” The Washington Post, March 27, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/27/historical-reality-behind-psychics-swindlers-nightmare-alley/
“Joe Exotic Channels the Spirit of America’s 19th Century Tiger Kings,” The Conversation, November 18, 2021, https://theconversation.com/joe-exotic-channels-the-spirit-of-americas-19th-century-tiger-kings-171789
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @MSteinerHistory
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Economic History
