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CAPT Center for American Political History and Technology


CAPT promotes the study of American political history and its intersections with modern communications technology with a goal of utilizing the best insights of the humanities and social sciences to advance a better understanding of the past, present, and future of media, public discourse, and American democracy in the information age.

CAPT Seminar Series Oct. 2024

CAPT Fall Seminar Series 

"Deglamorizing Drugs: DARE and the Drug War Public Relations Campaign"

Max Felker-Kantor

Department of History - Ball State University

Max Felker-Kantor is an associate professor of history at Ball State University. He is the author of Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) and DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2024). He is currently working on a history of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Scandal.

Join us: 

Monday, December 2 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Beering Hall, Room 6138

Lunch will be provided