Shawna Kidman

Associate Professor, University of California San Diego

Media Industries, History of Capitalism, antimonopoly, Black Business, Nonprofit Organizations, Financial Institutions, Corporate organization, Small Business
Women in Business History

Shawna Kidman is an Associate Professor of Communication at UC San Diego where she teaches courses in media studies. Her research on the media industries has been published and is forthcoming in The Journal of Film & Video, Velvet Light Trap, the International Journal of Learning and Media, and the International Journal of Communication. She is the author of Comic Books Incorporated (UC Press, 2019) a history of the U.S. comic book industry and its seventy-year convergence with the film and television business.

Recent Conference Participation

2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, "Shifting Discourses of Authorship & Above-the-Line Labor in Hollywood"
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Writing the History of Hollywood Using Contemporary Hollywood's Biggest Databases"
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "The Failure of Entrepreneurial Exhibition: Independent Movie Theatres in the Age of Digital Media Conglomerates"