History of Consciousness
2018-19 General Catalog
315 Humanities 1
(831) 459-4324
http://histcon.ucsc.edu/
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Gopal Balakrishnan, Professor of History of Consciousness
Classics of political thought from Plato to Rousseau, early modern and modern European intellectual history, historical sociology, the history and future of capitalism, nationalism, geopolitics
Banu Bargu, Associate Professor of History of Consciousness
Political theory, especially modern and contemporary thought; critical theory; theories of sovereignty and subjectivity; biopolitics and the body; materialism, aesthetics, ideology, resistance movements and practices; prisons and political prisoners; Middle East politics
Carla Freccero, Professor of Literature
Renaissance studies; French and Italian language and literature; early modern studies, postcolonial theories and literature; contemporary feminist theories and politics; queer theory; U.S. popular culture; posthumanism; animal studies
David S. Marriott, Professor of History of Consciousness
Poetics, black cultural theory and philosophies of race, psychoanalysis, Fanon, Afro-pessimism
Robert L. Meister, Professor of Politics and History of Consciousness
Critical human rights theory; moral philosophy; political jurisprudence; political theology; political economy; psychoanalysis; Marxian theory; 21st-century capitalism; institutional analysis; historical justice; antidiscrimination law
Eric Porter, Professor of History, and History of Consciousness
Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; Black radicalism; improvised music and jazz studies; urban studies
Massimiliano Tomba, Professor of History of Consciousness
Intellectual and modern history; political and critical theory; theories of the state; continental philosophy, particularly modern and contemporary philosophy, theories of history
Victor Burgin, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
James T. Clifford, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
Angela Y. Davis, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Teresa de Lauretis, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, Literature, and Film and Digital Media
Barbara L. Epstein, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness
Donna J. Haraway, Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies
Hayden White, Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness
Affiliated Faculty
Karen Barad, Professor of Feminist Studies
Feminist science studies, materialism, deconstruction, poststructuralism, posthumanism, decolonial studies, multi-species studies, science and justice, physics, 20th-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, ethics, philosophy of physics, feminist, queer, and trans theories
Twentieth- and 21st-century German literature and film; Marxism and critical theory; psychoanalysis; lyric poetry; literary realism; the novel
Christopher Connery, Professor of Literature
World literature and cultural studies, globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, cultural revolution
Gina Dent, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History
Modern Jewish history; Eastern European Jewish culture; ethnography, Hasidism; history of religions
Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology of religion, secularism, Islam, multiculturalism/pluralism; colonial and post-colonial France, Europe
Wlad Godzich, Professor of Literature
Theory of literature; philosophy and literature; emergent literature; translation theory; globalization and culture; European integration; knowledge society; literatures of Africa, the Caribbean, Europe (Central, Eastern, and Western), Brazil, Canada; detective and crime fiction; science fiction; medicine and literature
Jennifer A. González, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
Deborah Gould, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Political emotion; social movements and contentious politics; classic and contemporary social theory; sexualities; lesbian/gay/queer studies; feminist and queer theory
Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature; Provost, Oakes College
Feminism, discourse, and power; feminist theory; discourse, analysis, and ethnographic methods; fairytales, folklore and fantasy; virtual worlds; popular culture; globalization
Dean Mathiowetz, Associate Professor of Politics
Political theory, contemporary and historical; theories of affect, agency, citizenship, democracy, language, and subjectivity; classical and critical political economy
Jennifer Reardon, Professor of 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
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.
Warren Sack, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory
Daniel Selden, Professor of Literature
Afroasiatic languages and literatures, Greek and Latin, Hellenistic culture, the classical tradition, history of criticism, literary theory
Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics
Early modern European and modern political theory, feminist theory, cultural history, race politics, postcolonial theory and post-modernist theory
Megan Thomas, Associate Professor of Politics
Political theory, especially of the 19th century; nationalist thought; Orientalism; comparative colonialism; Southeast Asia
Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology
Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and tropical forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.
Revised: 07/15/18
