Susan Nance
Campus: Guelph
Office: 2006 MacKinnon Extension
Email: snance@uoguelph.ca
As a historian, I have always been fascinated by the process of communication and live performance in market economies. I have been most captivated by the development of cross-cultural entertainment in the United States. My interests drove me to seek out the perspectives of individuals who struggled to get their message across to the right audience at just the right moment in a financially viable way. I have examined the work of such creative people in the context of African-American alternative spirituality, the Ottoman travel industry, American publishing, fraternal orders, civic festivals, circuses and beyond.
These days I am working to understand further how capitalism has shaped communication, but between species, through studies of historical animal training in globalized commercial entertainment.
I am open to supervising work on any aspect of American history, but especially America in the world, the history of communication and entertainment, tourism, and animal history.
My website is: www.susannance.com