Social Documentation
2012-13 General Catalog
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Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latina/o cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, film festival studies, and the making/marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
Renee Tajima-Peña
Documentary film, video, and interactive web projects focusing on Asian Americans, immigrants, communities of color, women, 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
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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, Emerita
Eric C. Porter (American Studies)
Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and 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
Warren Sack (Film and Digital Media)
Software design and media theory
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
Lewis Watts (Art)
Photography
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 media, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies
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, especially Australasian, Middle Eastern, and Arab cinemas; film and video history and historiography; theories of globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; queer theory
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
Jennifer Reardon (Sociology)
Issues of social identity as influenced by the new sciences of genetics and genomics; intersection of the sociology of science and knowledge and the sociology of race, gender, and class
Gustavo Vazquez (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, directing, drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator
Assistant Professor
Irene Lusztig (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, experimental ethnography and essayistic nonfiction; representions of historical memory; archives, propaganda and training films; feminist film practices; medical film; autobiographical filmmaking; interactive documentary; 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 feminisms; sexuality and migration; technology and race; intimacy and globalization; Latin American/Latino studies; border studies; Chicana/o studies; biometrics and security studies
Yiman Wang (Film and Digital Media)
Film history and theory; colonial/semi-colonial/postcolonial/postsocialist modes of media production and exchange; border-crossing film remakes; silent cinema; translation theory and cinema; transnational connections and ramifications of Chinese cinema and documentary; cybernetic fan culture
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
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