Marshall Poe

Marshall Poe
Poe in 2016
Born
Marshall Tillbrook Poe

(1961-12-29) December 29, 1961 (age 62)
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, history professor
Known forBooks on Russian history, Communications theories, Commentary on Wikipedia

Marshall Tillbrook Poe (born December 29, 1961) is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.[1][2] He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian and World history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has also taught courses on new media and online collaboration.[3]

Poe is the author or editor of a number of books on early modern Russia. He has also published A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet, a book that examines how various communications media shape social practices and values.[1]

In 2005, Poe founded the now-defunct MemoryArchive, a universal wiki-type archive of contemporary memoirs. It encouraged people to contribute written accounts of their personal memories that would be part of a searchable, online database.[4] There he contributed numerous personal accounts of his own, from playing basketball with Barack Obama,[5] to stumbling onto a crime scene of Dennis Rader's, the BTK serial killer.

In 2006, Poe wrote an influential commentary on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, while serving as a writer, researcher and editor at The Atlantic magazine.[1][6]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Book was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "New Books Network". Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  3. ^ "Marshall Poe". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  4. ^ Maughan, Christopher. "The Web's newest thing total recallArchive is about 'storytelling,' creator says; A historian creates a 'Memory Archive,' Wikipedia- style," Toronto Star, September 3, 2006, p. D1.
  5. ^ Poe, Marshall. "Playing B-Ball with Barack Obama, 1988/1989". MemoryArchive. Archived from the original on July 10, 2008. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
  6. ^ Poe, Marshall (September 2006). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2023.