Alex Cummings is a historian of law, technology, and the American landscape. He earned his BA in History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2003. He went on to receive an MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in History from Columbia University, studying with Elizabeth Blackmar and Barbara Fields. His dissertation research examined the history of music piracy and intellectual property law in the United States, and the thesis has since been nominated for the Bancroft Dissertation Prize. Alex has been the recipient of the Torbet Prize, a Whiting fellowship, and, most recently, a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He now teaches as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow in the Media Studies program at Vassar College, and is working on a new project that examines the political and cultural origins of rhetoric about a post-industrial 'information society' in the mid-twentieth century US.

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