Sam Herrmann is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on religion, media, and adolescence in 20th century America.
Sam is currently working on a dissertation that traces the changes that conservative Christianity underwent in the postwar period as a result of their newfound attention to adolescence and their participation in the burgeoning youth culture of mass media. This movement drew together a focus on the nuclear family with a market-centered strategy to reach youth at a moment of anticipation for what the world might look like in the wake of the Second World War.
BA, Liberty University
MA, University of Chicago
Gender and sexuality
Media
Affect Theory
Race, Capitalism, and US institutional power
Christianity
Childhood, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Politics and Publics