Tona Hangen
Tona Hangen
Professor of History
Tona Hangen
VIEW CV 508-929-8688 thangen@worcester.edu
Faculty Member's Office
Sullivan 327-D
Office Hours:
Fall 2023 Wed 3 - 4:30 pm, Fri 1 - 2:30 pm
Areas of Expertise
American HistoryCultural StudiesPedagogyResearch

Courses I Teach

Education and Background
1988-1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. in Anthropology / Archaeology
1992-1999
Brandeis University
Ph.D. in American Civilization
1999-2008
Taught at Harvard, Bentley University, and Brandeis University
2008-present
Worcester State University
History and Political Science Dept.

Recent Publications

Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America, 1920-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
"Lived Religion Among Mormons," Oxford Handbook of Mormonism, ed. Phil Barlow and Terryl Givens (Oxford University Press, 2015)
WRVR Riverside Radio: A Pioneering Noncommercial Station, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (2022)
"Historical Digital Literacy: One Classroom at a Time," Journal of American History, 2015, 101 (4): 1192-1203
"When Radio Ruled: The Social Life of Sound," American Quarterly 2016, 66 (2): 465-476
Radio Survivor Episode 290: Aimee Semple McPherson and the Early History of Radio Evangelists (June 2020)
Backstory Radio podcast episode, Born Again: Religious Renewal in America (2015)
"Radio in Religion and Popular Culture," in Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2015)