Beth Fowler

Beth Fowler is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Irvin D. Reid Honors College of Wayne State University. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Wayne State University. Her research focuses on popular culture, consumerism, the U.S. civil rights movement, urban history, gender and sexuality, and 20th-century African-American history.

Her first book, Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Post-Civil Rights Racism, explores intersections between music, media, and racial integration during the 1950s-1960s. She is currently researching Frances Williams Preston, a pioneering woman executive in the music industry, examining gender politics in the country music industry.

No scientific awards are listed, but her work highlights interdisciplinary approaches to cultural and social history. She teaches courses like The City: Changing Detroit and Foundation Seminar in the Honors College.