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Madeline Steiner

Title: Instructor
Department: History
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: steinem@email.sc.edu
Madeline Steiner

Bio:

Madeline Steiner is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the university’s Founding Documents initiative. Her research focuses on the history of capitalism and popular culture in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book project, The Robber Barons of Show Business: Traveling Amusements and the Development of the American Entertainment Industry, 1870-1920, explores how traveling amusements such as circuses and minstrel shows built the foundations of today’s multi-billion dollar commercial entertainment industry. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of South Carolina, and BAs in history and musical theatre performance from American University.

Courses:

  • Hist 111: United States History to 1865
  • Hist 201: America’s Founding Documents

Recent Publications:


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