Sean O'Brien
Academic Service Officer II
3109 FA/B
Department
Sean O'Brien
Sean O'Brien is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Wayne State University. His dissertation is focused on creative labor in the comics industry. He has taught pre-modern and modern sections of East Asian history, HIS 2050: Modern America since 1877, HIS 1050 US since 1945: History of the Headlines, and a new course: ELR 3220 Labor in Media and Popular Culture.
Starting in January of 2024, Sean began working as the Academic Services Officer II for Labor@Wayne and the Department of History.
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
- Modern U.S. history
- History of American and Japanese pop culture
- American labor history
Research
- Comics labor history
Education
- B.A., History, Northern Michigan University, 2012
- M.A., History, Wayne State University, 2019
Awards and grants
- 2019 - Thomas Frank Mayer-Oakes Annual Memorial Scholarship
- 2018 - Thomas Frank Mayer-Oakes Annual Memorial Scholarship
- 2018 - Michael D. Patterson Memorial Award
Courses taught by Sean O'Brien
Winter Term 2025 (future)
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
- ASN1700 - East Asia to the 1700s
- HIS1700 - East Asia to the 1700s
- HIS3995 - Special Topics in History