2011-12 General Catalog

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Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Renee Tajima-Peña
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change

Assistant Professor

John Jota Leaños
Social documentation, social art practice, community arts, documentary animation, Chicana/o art practice and cultural studies, media and cultural studies, subaltern studies, photography, installation art, public art and intervention

Professor

David Brundage (HISTORY)
American working-class and immigration history, history of U.S. social movements, Irish history and politics

Sharon Daniel (Film and Digital Media)
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, Net art, human-computer interface design

Rosa-Linda Fregoso (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Human-rights studies; intercultural and transborder feminism; cultural studies; Latina/o and Latin Américan film and media arts

Herman S. Gray (Sociology)
Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory

Lisbeth Haas (History and Feminist Studies)
U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Chicano and Native American history, visual culture in the colonial Americas; the U.S. West and California; historical memory, theory, and historical methodology

Craig W. Haney (Psychology)
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms

Gail B. Hershatter (History)
Modern Chinese social and cultural history; labor history; gender history, history of sexuality; feminist theory, history, memory, and nostalgia

Eli E. Hollander (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video directing; ethnographic documentary directory, editing, cinematography, and videography; digital image generation; screenwriting

Charles L. Lord, Emeritus

Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal (Literature)
Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found(n)ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory

Olga Nájera-Ramírez (Anthropology)
Folklore theory, ritual, festival, dance, greater Mexican culture, history and folklore, transnationalism, identity; expressive culture, ethnomusicology, bilingual communication, gender, history, and culture of Latin America, the U.S., and Mexico

Margaret Morse (Film and Digital Media)
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary, science fiction, and silent comedy

Eric C. Porter (American Studies)
Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies

Lisa Rofel  (Anthropology)
Critical theory, anthropology of modernity, popular/public culture, gender and sexuality, transnational capitalism, postcolonial and transnational feminism, China

Shelley Stamp (Film and Digital Media)
Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema

Nancy Stoller, Emerita

Dana Y. Takagi (Sociology)
Social inequality, affect, religion, race, quantitative analysis

Karen Tei Yamashita (Literature)
History and anthropology of Japanese immigration to Brazil; Asian American literature; modern fiction; playwriting

David T. Wellman, Emeritus

Associate Professor

Lawrence Andrews (Film and Digital Media)
Film, video, installation and media art

David Henry Anthony III (History)
African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; Eastern and Southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history

Jennifer Gonzalez (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

Miriam Greenberg (Sociology)
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, and globalization

Irene Gustafson (Film and Digital Media)
Producing across the boundaries between “theory” and “practice,” non-fiction, gender and queer studies; production design

L.S. Kim (Film and Digital Media)
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American media production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media

Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media)
International cinemas; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; queer theory

Gustavo Vazquez (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, directing, drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator

Warren Sack (Film and Digital Media)
Software design and media theory

Lewis Watts (Art)
Photography

Assistant Professor

Miriam Greenberg (Sociology)
Media studies, cultural studies, globalization, political and cultural economies of global cities, video production, and ethnography

Irene Lusztig (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, experimental documentary, ethnographic film, autobiographical film, editing

Soraya Murray (Film and Digital Media)
New media art, theory, and criticism; visual culture, including digital, film, video, and electronic games; theories of technology and globalization; representation of otherness, migration, citizenship

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies)
Transnational feminism, migration, Latin American/Latino studies, chicana/o studies, Internet,  technology and the body, sexuality, gender and globalization

Marcia Ochoa (feminist studies)
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, geography, multimedia production, graphic design, colonialism and modernity, Latin American studies—Colombia and Venezuela

Gustavo Vazquez (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, directing drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator

Yiman Wang (Film and Digital Media)
Film history and theory; colonial/semi-colonial/postcolonial modes of media production and exchange; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; acting theory/practice and ethnic star studies; transnational connections and ramifications of Chinese cinema and documentary; fan culture; East Asian cinemas

Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Anthropology)
Anthropology and history of medicine and public health, science studies, American studies, popular culture, the United States and the United Kingdom

Revised: 8/13/12