James Danky
Faculty Associate

Education:
Ripon College
A.B., 1970

University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. Library Science, 1973

Courses:
Mass Media and Minorities
Senior Thesis

Research areas:
Newspapers and Periodicals of the African Diaspora; African American and minority press, historical and contemporary;
Alternative Press/zines; The American Right.

Recent publications:
James P. Danky, "Reading, Writing, and Resisting: African-American
Print Culture, 1880-1940," in A History of the Book in America, Volume 4, edited by Carl Kaestle and Janice Radway. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

James P. Danky, "The Oppositional Press," in A History of the Book in America, Volume 5, edited by Michael Schudson, Joanne Rubin, and David Paul Nord. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).

Biography: James Danky has been a Faculty Associate since 1990. Danky earned degrees from Ripon College and the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to his teaching "Mass Media and Minorities," Danky co-founded the Center for the History of
Print Culture in Modern America in 1992 and served as its Director until 2006. In April, 2007 the Center honored Danky with a
two-day symposium, "Alternative Print Culture: Social History and Libraries". The University of Illinois will publish the papers as
a special issue of Library Trends in late Fall, 2008. Danky served as the Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian for the Wisconsin
Historical Society, formerly the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for 35 years prior to his retirement in 2007.

His boooks include: Print Culture in a Diverse America (Illinois); The German American Radical Press (Illinois); and African-
American Newspapers and Periodicals (Harvard). At present he is working on an exhibit of "underground" comix with Denis
Kitchen for the Chazen Museum and scheduled for Spring, 2009. The catalog for "Underground Classics: how comics became
comix" will be published by Abrams in conjunction with the exhibit.

Danky's research interests include newspapers and periodicals published by Africans in the Diaspora. He is interested in hearing of new titles as well as receiving scholarly inquiries.