Dr. David Simonelli
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
DeBartolo Hall 533
phone: (330) 941-1601
Research Interests
I have published articles and a book on rock music and British culture in the mid-twentieth century; my book is entitled Working Class Heroes: Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s. I just published an article comparing Italian Futurism in the 1910s and 1920s to the Mod subculture in London in the 1950s and 1960s. I am also pursuing a documentary project on the Manhattan punk scene of the mid-1970s.
Teaching Interests
I teach mostly contemporary British, American and world history at YSU. Amongst recent upper division courses I have taught are:
History of Ireland
US in Crisis: 1900-1945
The World since 1945
The Vietnam War
Europe since 1715
Britain and Its Empire