Aniko Bodroghkozy is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and has been on it faculty since 2001. She is the author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement was published in 2012 by the University of Illinois Press. Her first book, Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion was published by Duke University Press in 2001. In 2018 she published a major anthology, edited for Wiley-Blackwell’s “Companions in Cultural Studies” series: A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting. 

She is currently completing a single-author work tentatively titled Black Weekend: President Kennedy’s Assassination, Television News, and the Birth of Our Media World.  She has published numerous articles on American cinema and television and the social change movements of the postwar era. Her work has appeared in scholarly journals such as Cinema Journal, Screen, Television and New Media, as well as in more popular venues such as Slate.com and NBCnews.com. 

Her scholarship has also been frequently reprinted and anthologized in volumes such as Television: The Critical View, Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture, and Critiquing the Sitcom. She teaches American broadcasting history and historiography, media history, and topics courses such as: media in the Kennedy era; media and the civil rights movement; and media and protest: The 1960s.