Nicholas Sammond is an Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005), and the editor of and contributor to Steel Chair to the Head: The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling (Duke University Press, 2005).
Nic has recently finished the book Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation (Duke University Press, 2015), which explores the historical relationship between blackface minstrelsy and the American animation industry. Both it and Babes in Tomorrowland received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His next major project, on abjection and resistance, will include with The Abject Objection the monograph Fluid Resistance, which explores the political and social uses of abjection in Cold War vernacular media and performance.
