Richard C. Rath

Richard Cullen Rath

Is associate professor of history at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He teaches courses on early America, Native Americans, and the history of media and the senses. He is the author of How Early America Sounded and is currently working on two books, one an introduction to the history of hearing and the other comparing the rise of print culture in eighteenth-century North America to the rise of internet culture today. He has also written three award-winning articles on music, creolization and African American culture. In addition, Rath is a musician who has found ways to use music to “do” history whenever possible.

Hi,
This semester, I'm visiting resident scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am also a research associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, but I'll be back to UH in the Spring of 2010, at which time I will teach a survey of American History to 1865 (Hist 281) and Native American History (Hist 460). I do not have syllabi ready yet, but will post them here as the semester approaches.

If you are curious,

You can find out more about How Early America Sounded and the history of sound here.
Students at Oberlin College, Hamilton College, and UHI helped me develop a musical hypertext edition of W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk.
Here are some history-related bookmarks.
You can find out a little more about me—including some of my music, and copies of some articles I've written—here if you are interested.

That's it for now!
Rich Rath