Lars Lierow

Lars Lierow joined the American Studies PhD program in Fall 2004. His areas of interest are the cultural history of technology and mass communication, American and European social science and theory, and postwar countercultures.

Currently, he is working on his dissertation with the working title "Understanding Media: Science and Counterculture Theorize The Postwar Mass Communication Landscape," which examines the intersections between notions of mass communication developed in an academic setting and in the counterculture.

Before coming to Washington, DC, he graduated from the Universität Leipzig with a Master's in American Studies and Communication/Media Studies. During his last year there, he had the opportunity to teach a seminar on Pragmatist thought in communication and media theories. Lars has also contributed a chapter to Zeitung, Werbung, Öffentlichkeit (Herbert von Halem, 2005) that deals with Robert E. Park's dissertation “Masse und Publikum,” which he wrote in Heidelberg in 1904.

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