Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. A cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema, he teaches courses in media culture and things American.
Doherty’s undergraduate degree is from Gonzaga University, a small liberal arts college in Spokane, WA, similar to Brandeis but with different religious holidays. After a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in South Korea, he entered graduate school at the University of Iowa, where he received his Ph.D. in American Studies in 1984. After teaching in the division of humanities at Boston University, he came to Brandeis in 1990. He has also taught overseas as a Fulbright scholar at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea, and as the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. As a senior Fulbright scholar, he has lectured in New Zealand and Albania. His reviews and commentary have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, and he writes frequently on media culture for the Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2005, he received recognition as an Academy Film Scholar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Doherty is the author of Teenagers and Teenpics: the Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s (1988), Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (1993), Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 (1999), Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003), and, most recently, Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration (2007). He serves on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal and Cineaste and edits the film review section for the Journal of American History.
He lives with his wife Sandra, a freelance editor and fierce Pittsburgh Steelers fan, in Salem, MA.
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