Eadington Gaming Fellow Paul Franke: In Residence July 19 – August 16

Paul Franke is a doctoral candidate in history at the International Max Planck Research School for Moral Economies of Modern Societies and the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests are the history of gaming, urban history, the history of entertainment and pop-culture in both the USA and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Franke’s current project is his dissertation “The Production of Monaco (1860-1960) and Las Vegas (1945-1976) as Sites of (Un)Moral Economies.”  The project will shed light on the production process of the unique gaming experience in both places, via the historical analysis of spatial arrangements, business models, advertisements, the involved workforce, and gaming practices in a comparative perspective.

Franke’s Colloquium talk, “The Making of the Las Vegas Consumption Experience in a Historical Perspective,” is scheduled for August 15, 2016, at 3 PM in the Goldfield Room, Lied Library, UNLV campus.

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