Participant Info
- First Name
- Kate L.
- Last Name
- Flach
- Country
- United States
- State
- kate.flach@csulb.edu
- Affiliation
- California State University, Long Beach
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Modern US history, popular culture, media, technology, race and gender
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Kate L. Flach received her B.A. in Education and M.A. in History from the University of Akron, and a Ph.D. in History from UC San Diego. Her research interests include modern US history, media history, race, gender, social movements, and the history of education. She is currently completing her book manuscript tentatively titled, Producing America: Race, Media, and National Identity, which examines how Americans have envisioned television as a site for civic engagement and liberal politics in the 1960s-1970s.
- Recent Publications
“America’s Nervous Breakdown: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Popular Psychology, and the Demise of the Housewife in the 1970s,” Journal of 20th Century Media History 1, 1 (2023): 3-29.
Her bylines have appeared in The Washington Post and are available on Bunk History.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Politics, Race, Technology, Women
