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Ph.D. University of Minnesota
 Steve
Waksman is Associate Professor of Music and American Studies, having joined the Smith
faculty in the fall of 2001. His research and teaching interests are in the history
of U.S. popular culture — especially music, but
also film, television, and literature — during the 19th and 20th
centuries, and in the intersection of race, gender and sexuality. In 1998, his dissertation, "Instruments
of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience," won the
Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize awarded by the American Studies Association; the project
is now a book published by Harvard University Press in 1999.
 Currently, Dr. Waksman is completing his second book, This Ain't the Summer of Love: Rock Music and the Metal/Punk Continuum, which is under contract with University of California Press. An essay drawn from the book, "Grand Funk Live! Staging Rock in the Age of the Arena," is included in the collection, Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, published by Duke University Press. He has also begun research on a new project on the history of live music in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present.
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