Social Documentation
2015-16 General Catalog
101 Communications Building
(831) 459-3445
socdoc@ucsc.edu
http://film.ucsc.edu/socdoc
Program Statement | 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 and other global/regional cinemas, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, film festival studies, and the making/marketing of foreign films in the U.S. As Editor of "Film Quarterly," also advising on journal submission and the craft of editing
Gustavo Vazquez (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film
Associate Professor
John Jota Leaños
Documentary animation, social documentation, social art practice, community arts, Chicana/o art and culture, new media, critical media studies, cultural studies, documentary photography, installation art, public art and interventionist art practice
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, social documentation
Assistant Professor
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Social documentation, Latino and Latin American communities, public education, popular culture, religion, incarceration and justice, urban and community development, collaborative practices in journalism and production, transmedia
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Professor
David Brundage (History)
American immigration history, with particular focus on the Irish in America and on transnational immigrant politics; U.S. labor and social history; modern Irish history
Sharon Daniel (Film and Digital Media)
New media documentary and database documentary; social, economic, environmental and criminal justice; Participatory culture, Community-based public art in information and communications environments; social and political aspects of information design; net art, social-practice art
Jennifer González (History of Art and Visual Culture)
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
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 and border studies, Chicano and Native American history, visual culture in the colonial Americas; 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, Professor Emeritus
Charles L. Lord, Professor Emeritus
Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Latin American and Caribbean literatures; Afro-Latin American literatuers, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatuers of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora, cinema and social change in Cuba; critical race theory, queer literature and cinema in Latin America
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, Professor Emerita
Eric C. Porter (History and History of Consciousness)
Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies; black radicalism; urban studies
Jennifer Reardon (Sociology)
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society
Lisa Rofel (Anthropology)
Critical theory, anthropology of modernity, popular/public culture, gender and sexuality, queer theory, 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; early Hollywood; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema
Nancy Stoller, Professor 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, Professor Emeritus (Art)
David T. Wellman, Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor
Lawrence Andrews (Film and Digital Media)
Documentary, sound, animation, installation
David Henry Anthony III (History)
African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African vernacular expression; Black Atlantic; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; African Sufism; African religion; missiology, liberation theology; world history
Miriam Greenberg (Sociology)
Urban sociology, media studies, cultural studies, political economy, globalization, and urban political ecology
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
Jonathan Kahana (Film and Digital Media)
Documentary film and media; film and politics; American film history; essay film; cultural and social theory; media publics; arts of historical re-enactment; war and cultural memory; audio culture; disciplines of listening
L.S. Kim (Film and Digital Media)
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian-American cultural theory and production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and alternative media
Peter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media)
International cinemas, especially Arab and Middle Eastern cinemas and Australasian cinemas; postcolonial theories and settler colonialism; theories of globalization and transnationalism; intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; queer theory; film and video history and historiography
Irene Lusztig (Film and Digital Media)
Film and video production, experimental ethnography and essayistic nonfiction; representations of historical memory; archives, propaganda and training films; feminist film practices; medical film; autobiographical filmmaking; interactive documentary; editing
Rick Prelinger (Film and Digital Media)
Critical archival studies; personal and institutional recordkeeping; access to the cultural record; media and social change; ephemeral cinema; amateur and home movies; participatory documentary; digital scholarship; cinema and public history
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (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)
Theory of difference; 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; acting theory/practice and ethnic star studies with focus on Anna May Wong; 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
Assistant Professor
Anna Friz (Film and Digital Media)
Sound studies and production, transmission art, media art installation and performance, media (especially radio) history, methodologies for research creation
Jennifer Horne (Film and Digital Media)
Media citizenship; non-theatrical film and film exhibition; archives and technologies of information; film preservation; mass media and humanitarianism; cinema and media history and historiography; institutions, disciplinarity, and the politics of knowledge; feminist theory
Soraya Murray (Film and Digital Media)
Contemporary visual culture and representation including: new media art; projected arts; photography; electronic games; theories of art and globalization; representations of migration and otherness
Susana Ruiz (Film and Digital Media)
Game design; games as forms of activism and art; animation; participatory culture; social art practice; non-fiction storytelling; theory/practice hybridity; Theatre of the Oppressed; expanded documentary; interaction design; worldbuilding; transmedia production, scholarship, and activism
Revised: 09/01/15
