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Jeff Pooley's research centers on the history of communication studies, as the field's emergence has intersected with the twentieth century rise of the other social sciences. He also writes about consumer culture and and the self. Recent work includes a study of Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld's Personal Influence ("Fifteen Pages That Shook the Field", AAPSS 2006), which won the semi-annual Article Prize from the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences; a treatment of Edward Shils' wartime revision of his social thought ("Edward Shils' Turn Against Karl Mannheim: The Central European Connection", American Sociologist 2007); and an edited collection, with David W. Park, on the field's history (The History of Media and Communication Research: Contested Memories, 2008). He is currently working on two short books, one on the late James W. Carey and another that revisits neglected work on the twentieth century self. He teaches Introduction to Communication, Media and Society, Media Theory and Methods, and Communication and Public Relations.