Pop Conference 2016

Jasen Emmons is the Director of Curatorial Affairs at EMP Museum, overseeing the Curatorial, Collections, Exhibits, and Education departments and championing Pop Conference every year. In his spare time, he occasionally gets to curate pop culture exhibits like Fantasy: Worlds of Myth... Read More →

Charlie Bertsch is currently on the faculty of the Honors College at the University of Arizona. He is also co-editor-in-chief of Souciant, an eclectic magazine of culture and politics based in Europe. Back in the early 1990s, he helped found Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday... Read More →

Dwandalyn R. Reece is Curator of Music and Performing Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and is curating the music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, which will open in September 2016. Reece has worked on such projects as the 2011 Folklife... Read More →

David Ritz’s most recent book is Willie Nelson’s memoir, It’s a Long Story. In June, 2016, Little Brown will publish his collaboration with Tavis Smiley, Before You Judge Me, a study of the last sixteen weeks in the life of Michael Jackson. Ritz has collaborated on memoirs with... Read More →