Susan V. Spellman

Contact

• spellmsv@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 573 Mosler Hall, Hamilton Campus
• 513-785-1876

Title

• Assistant Professor of History

Education

• PhD 2009, Carnegie Mellon University
• MA, Miami University
• BA, Kent State University

Teaching and Research Interests

• 19th and 20th C. U.S. social and cultural
• Business history
• Consumerism
• History of technology

Recently taught courses

• HST 111 Survey of U.S History
• HST 279 U.S. Consumerism, 1890-Present

Selected Publications

• Dissertation: "Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business, 1860-1940"
• "All the Comforts of Home: The Domestication of the Service Station Industry, 1920-1940," Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 37, no. 3, 2004
• Associate Editor (with Allan Winkler), Encyclopedia of American History, Postwar 1946-1968, Vol. 9, under the general editorship of Gary B. Nash, Facts on File, Inc., 2003

Selected Grants and Awards

• Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, 2007
• Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Traveling Fellowship in Business History, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 2006
• Russel B. Nye Award for Best Article published in Journal of Popular Culture, 2005