About Me
My name’s Tad Suiter. I’m a PhD student in George Mason University’s History program. I’m an Americanist, with a primary focus on US cultural and social history 1820-1920.
More broadly, I am interested in leisure– what the working class do in their off time, and what the wealthy do with their free time. To this end, my areas of research tend toward entertainment, media, parks, recreation, the domestic sphere, consumption, promenades… the list goes on and on.
Two of my more intense passions are comics history and the history of the Boston area. I’m also fascinated with the idea of historical cultural geography, and with the philosophy of history.
On top of all that, I’m also doing a minor field in History and New Media, so there’s a lot of posts in here dealing with digital history, internet pedagogy, social networking sites, web design, and other topics related to that.
When I get sick of computers and dead people, I try to teach myself the ukulele.