Aniko Bodroghkozy

I am a media historian at the University of Virginia with a particular focus on American television, the social change movements of the 1960s, media audiences and reception practices in historical context, and the development of television journalism in the 1960s.

My books include: Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement (Univ of Illinois Press , 2012); Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion (Duke Univ Press, 2001); a major anthology for Wiley-Blackwell titled A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, for which I was sole editor. My most recent book is Making #Charlottesville: Media from Civil Rights to Unite the Right (Univ of Virginia Press, 2023), which received the Book of the Year Award from the American Journalism Historians Association.

Currently I'm working on a new book tentatively titled Four Dark Days: Television News and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.

I've published numerous articles on American cinema and television and the social change movements of the postwar era. My work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Cinema Journal, Screen, Television and New Media, as well as in general interest venues like Slate.com, NBC.com, the Washington Post, and Time Magazine.

I teach American broadcasting history, media theory and criticism, media history, along with topics courses such as: media in the Kennedy era; media and the civil rights movement; and media and protest in the 1960s.