Introduction Teaching Interests Research Interests Selected Publications Educational Background	School of Arts & Letters Department of Communication Studies Steven D. Classen Assistant Professor Office: KH D 4050 Phone: (323) 343-6041 FAX: (323) 343-6467 Email: sclasse@calstatela.edu INTRODUCTION     I joined the Communication Studies Department at Cal State LA in 2000 after teaching at Cal State San Bernardino and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  I sincerely enjoy teaching and working with students to better understand popular media texts,  practices, and regulation.  My research and teaching are strongly influenced by the theories and scholarship of cultural studies. TEACHING INTERESTS     Communication Law and Policy; Cultural Studies; Media Theory; Television, Radio and Film History; Gender, Race, Identity and Popular Media. RESEARCH INTERESTS      I am interested in examining the relationship of media law/policy and American social history.  My research has concentrated on the social unrest and struggles of the fifties and sixties and the ways such tensions were taken up and reproduced in popular television texts and regulations. I'm also interested in intellectual property law and religious broadcasting in the United States. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Watching Jim Crow:  The Struggles Over Mississippi Television, 1955-1969. Duke University Press, 2004. "Re-viewing Jim Crow:  The Battle Against Broadcast Segregation in Jackson, Mississippi."  Television Quarterly, 31 (2), 15-25, (Summer/Fall 2000). "Southern Discomforts:  The Racial Struggle Over Popular Television" in The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, edited by Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin.  New York: Routledge, 1997. "Standing on Unstable Grounds:  A Reexamination of the WLBT-TV case." Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 11 (1), 73-91, (Spring, 1994). EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., 1995  Ph.D. 1995 University of Wisconsin--Madison M.A. University of Oregon B.A. Biola University TOP | Cal State L.A.