Jason Attig, a senior history major, presented a paper at the Popular Culture Association National Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana from April 8-11. Jason’s paper “Speed, Weed, and Alcohol: NASCAR, Tobacco, and Advertising during the 1970s” examined the connections between the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969, which banned tobacco advertisements from television, and the growth of NASCAR beyond the South. It which appeared on a panel titled Masculine Images in Advertising chaired by Loyola University professor Sammy Dana.

The research was conducted as part of Dr. Gordon’s seminar History 290: The Practice of History. The theme of the class was consumerism and advertising in the Cold War era. Jason received a Chancellor’s Award (Teal) and a grant from the History Department Fund for Undergraduate Research to support attendance at the conference.