Victoria Cain has been an associate professor in the Department of History at Northeastern University, USA since 2019. She completed her dissertation, titled ‘Nature Under Glass: Popular Science, Professional Illusion and the Transformation of American Natural History Museums, 1870-1945’ in 2007 at Columbia University and graduated with distinction.

Her book‚ ‘Schools and Screens: A Watchful History’ (MIT Press, 2021), for which she won the Georg Eckert Research Award, explores the history of screen media and media technologies in schools in the United States, from their introduction in the 1930s to the present day. The author illustrates, through her extensive archive research, how teaching tools such as films, television, film projections, computers and other screen media, became controversial technologies over time that still re-emerge at the centre of public debate.  

Victoria Cain has also assumed several leadership roles. For example, as director of the graduate programme at Northeastern University and as co-director of the Committee on Certification in Public History. She also sits on several academic boards.