Julie Lane

Where you work: Department of Communication and Media at Boise State University, Idaho

Where you got your Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Current favorite class: History of Mass Communication. We are playing a role-playing game this semester about the FCC and regulation of the radio industry in the late 1930s. We’ll see how it goes on Zoom!

Current research project: The role that National Review and other conservative media outlets played during the 1950s and 1960s in cultivating the idea of liberal media bias.

Fun fact about yourself: My first job after college was in Washington, D.C., as an aide to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.