Faculty

Craig Robertson

Assistant Professor

Office Location: 211 Holmes Hall
Office Phone: 617-373-7726
Email: cr.robertson@neu.edu

Office Hours:
Tuesday: 10:30-11:30, 4-4:50
Friday: 10:30-11:30
By appointment

Education:
Ph.D. Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A. Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
P.G. Dip., Journalism, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
B.A. (Hons), History, University of Otago (New Zealand)

Courses Taught:
Theories of Media and Culture
20th Century Media
Television: Text and Context
Methods and Research in Communication

Research Interests:
Dr. Robertson has two main research interests: communications/media history and identification technologies. In the former his work focuses on the emergence of communications technologies, and in the later on the intersection of communications, identification technologies and surveillance. He is the co-editor of Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History (Peter Lang, 2006), and the author of several articles which analyze the writing of cultural history through a critique of "The Archive." "Dr. Robertson has two forthcoming articles: "Locating the Border" in Social Identities (2008) and "A Documentary Regime of Verification: The Emergence of the U.S. Passport & the Archival Problematization of Identity" in Cultural Studies (2009). Currently he is working on a book length project that examines the emergence of the passport in the United States.

Dr. Robertson is the Vice-Chair of the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association. He is also on the editorial boards of The Communication Review and the Journal of Communication Inquiry.

Publications:

• Locating the Border, Social Identities Vol. 14:4, 447-456 (2008)
• Jeremy Packer and Craig Robertson (eds.) Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation and History (Peter Lang, 2006)
• Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive & the Passport in A. Burton (ed.) Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions & the Writing of History (Duke University Press, 2006)
• Introduction in J. Packer & C. Robertson (eds.) Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation and History. (Peter Lang, 2006)
• A Ritual of Verification? The Nation, the State & the Passport in J. Packer & C. Robertson (eds.) Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation and History. (Peter Lang, 2006)
• The Archive, Disciplinarity and Governing: Cultural Studies and the Writing of History. Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies Vol.4:4, 450-471 (2004).
• A Sporting Gesture? BSkyB, Manchester United, Global Media and Sport. Television and New Media Vol.5:4, 291-314 (2004).