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Alex Sayf Cummings

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University

Alex Sayf Cummings is a historian of law, media, and the American landscape. His work examines how the ideological transition to an “information society” reshaped American political culture and economic policy, as well as the built environment. He received his BA (2003) from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and PhD (2009) from Columbia University, studying with Elizabeth Blackmar and Barbara Fields. He 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 is the author of [Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century] (http://tiny.cc/5oqxrw) (Oxford University Press, 2013), and co-editor of the blog [Tropics of Meta](http://tropicsofmeta.com).

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    Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University