Michael Anton Budd

Michael Budd (BS, University of Oregon, MA and PhD, Rutgers University) began his teaching career leading youth corps members in summer programs, and teaching ESL and Citizenship History. Budd has taught at Rutgers, URI, Bryant University, The College of Wooster, Bradford College, and the Rhode Island School of Design. While at Rutgers, he was a fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. From 2000 to 2002 he was a national program associate at the Facing History and Ourselves Foundation where he helped build & administer online genocide education and anti-violence curricula and programming. Budd's most recent work applying insights from humanistic studies found him working as part of a team building and facilitating a new homeland security masters program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, CA. In 2004 Budd was selected to travel to Rome as the Liberal Arts Critic and Scholar in residence at the RISD European Honors Program. His interests include the history of representation & media, Imperialism, historical film, Museum Studies, Art & the Machine, Urban History, Genocide studies, and military history & technology. He is the author of The Sculpture Machine: Physical Culture and Body Politics in the Age of Empire (Macmillan UK/ NYU Press 1997). He has written for scholarly and popular venues, including Webguide, City Limits, International Journal of Sport History, and Afterimage. Budd's current research focuses on global consumer identity and the national body in relation to technology, memory, violence & authoritarian ideas.