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David Crider
David Crider (Ph.D., Temple University, 2013) is an assistant professor of broadcasting in the Department of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego. He is also a faculty advisor for WNYO-FM, Oswego’s student-run radio station. He is the author of Performing Personality: On-Air Radio Identities in a Changing Media Landscape (Lexington Books, 2016). His research has been published in John Allen Hendricks’s Radio’s Second Century (Rutgers University Press, 2020) and several journal articles. Crider was the recipient of the 2015 Kenneth Harwood Dissertation Award from the Broadcast Education Association. Prior to earning his doctorate, he worked in professional radio for ten years as a talk show producer, sports reporter and Alternative Rock programme director/on-air personality. Crider’s research interests include the presentation and promotion of identity through radio, including issues of local and gender identity, as well as programming and industry concerns related to consolidation and localism.