Scott Poulson-Bryant / University of Michigan

Scott Poulson-Bryant is an assistant professor of African American Studies at the University of Michigan. His research has appeared in The Journal of Popular Music Studies, American Studies, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Prior to academia, he worked as a journalist, publishing several articles in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Village Voice, among other publications, and he was one of the founding editors of VIBE Magazine. His books include HUNG: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America (Doubleday) and The VIPs: A Novel (Broadway/Random House), and he is currently finishing a monograph Everybody is a Star: Race, Glamour, and Citizenship in 1970s US Popular Culture.