Victoria Cain

Victoria E. M. Cain is an associate professor of history at Northeastern University and a social and cultural historian of the twentieth-century United States, with research interests in education, media, and technology. Her book Schools and Screens: A Watchful History (MIT Press, 2021) examines the use of film, television, computers, and other screen technologies in American schools from the 1930s onward.

Cain is also the coauthor, with Karen A. Rader, of Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century.