Craig Robertson

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Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court

“Gender-bending fashion made it harder for border officials to identify someone as male or female,” said Craig Robertson, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University who wrote a book about the history of the American passport. “I sometimes joke David Bowie caused M/F sex markers to be added to the passport.”

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Passports in a pandemic

Americans were not happy. The new passports were seen as a “symbol of eroding trust between citizens and their government,” writes Craig Robertson, an associate professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, in the Smithsonian Magazine.

The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere

Google figures only briefly in the The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, a new book by Craig Robertson, an associate media-studies professor at Northeastern University, but it’s impossible not to think about the little search bars we live with every day while reading it.

Faculty Reads, Volume Four

Northeastern faculty members have written at length on a wide range of topics. Here, we highlight the fourth batch of published works in a feature on recent faculty books.

Tracing the passport’s changing role in America

Nowadays, carrying a passport goes hand-in-hand with traveling abroad. But it wasn’t always that way. Craig Robertson, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, explores how the modern passport came to be in his new book, The Passport in America: The History of a Document. Robertson highlights the passport’s emergence as an identification […]

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