Irvine’s School of Humanities. She holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Texas-Austin. For the 2010-2011 academic year, Perlman was the Verklin Research Fellow in Media Ethics and Policy at the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous scholarly essays and the co-editor of Flow TV: Television in the Age of Convergent Media, (New York: Routledge, 2010). In addition to her work on race, social politics, and media, Perlman relates that she is also interested in “the way that television operates as a portal of popular history and collective memory.” Her recent work has explored “how television’s role as popular historian has shifted in the digital age, and the degree to which changes in media production and consumption, branding strategies, and distribution platforms affect the presentation of the past on the small screen.”