Biography
Katie Day Good is a media historian and cultural scholar of emerging technologies in education and everyday life. She is the author of Bring the World to the Child: Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education (MIT Press, 2020) and the recipient of the 2020 Covert Award in Mass Communication History from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She writes widely on how “old technologies”—including scrapbooks, slide projectors, and film and radio—have shaped contemporary ideas about how we live and learn with media.
Good also writes and teaches about how diverse media can be used to foster intercultural understanding. She has published several works on the rise of pen pal programs and virtual exchanges in American culture. Her current research focuses on the history of the family computer, as well as cultural movements to disconnect from digital technology and take a “digital sabbath.”
She lives in Grand Rapids with her husband and three children.
Education
Ph.D. - Media, Technology, and Society. Northwestern University, 2015.
M.A. - Media, Technology, and Society. Northwestern University, 2010.
B.S. - Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
B.A. - International Studies, Loyola University Chicago, 2007
Professional Experience
2024-Present - Associate Professor of Communication, Calvin University
2022-2024 - Associate Professor of Strategic Communication, Miami University
2015-2022- Assistant Professor of Strategic Communication, Miami University
2016-Present - Faculty Research Associate, Radio Preservation Task Force, U.S. Library of Congress
