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Areas of expertise: Asian Studies, China, Communism, Cultural Studies, Pacific Rim, Gender Studies, Oral History, History, Labor and Social Movements, Sexuality
Biography, Education and Training
B.A. Hampshire College M.A. Stanford University Ph.D. Stanford University
Areas of expertise: Latin American and Latino Studies, Cultural Studies, Nationalism, Print Media
Biography, Education and Training
I am Chilean-American, with a Licenciatura from the Universidad de Chile and a Ph.D. from Duke University. I generally focus on the question of literature as discourse in national and transnational contexts: what kind of experience does it provide, for whom, to what personal, cultural, and political effects? This involves the history of literary and cultural studies, the history of reading and the book as both technologies and social practices; the history of citizenship and migration; and the e... more »
Areas of expertise: Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies
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B.A., Brandeis University M.A., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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Carla Freccero
Professor
freccero@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, French, Queer Studies, Animal-Human Relationships, Feminist Theory, European Studies, Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies
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1984 Ph.D. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1980 M.Phil. Yale University, Renaissance Studies 1977 B.A. cum laude Harvard University, History & Literature Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness, and Affiliated Faculty in Feminist Studies at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include Father Figures (Cornell,1991); Popular Culture (NYU, 1999); and Queer/Early/Modern (Duke, 2006). She co-edited Premodern Sexualities (Routledge, 1... more »
History Graduate Program Director, Professor
History Department, History of Consciousness Department, Critical Race and Ethnic StudiesAreas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies
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B.A. History, UC Berkeley M.A. American Studies, University of Michigan Ph.D. American Studies, University of Michigan
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Ethnography
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• Ph.D. Sociology. University of California at Davis with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research, Department of Women's Studies. • M.A. Sociology. University of California at Davis • Department Chair, 2017-20. Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz. • Chair, 2014. Race, Gender, Class Section of the American Sociological Association.
Areas of expertise: History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., Dissertation: "New Illusions: The Emergence of a Discourse on Traditional Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1868-1945," University of Chicago, 1997 M.A., Thesis: "Object Lessons: the Museological Practices of Edward S. Morse and Yanagi Sôetsu," University of Chicago, 1991 Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, 1988-1989 B.A., Yale University (Summa cum laude), Yale University, 1983-1987
Areas of expertise: Ancient World / Classics, Literature, Middle East Studies, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Film, Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies and Judaism
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Ph.D. Yale University (Comparative Literature) B.A. Yale University (Art History; Italian Literature)
Professor, Film and Digital Media Department, Social Documentation MFA Program
Film and Digital Media DepartmentPress Contact
B RUBY RICH
PROFESSOR, CRITIC, SCHOLAR, EDITOR
brrich@ucsc.edu
415-287-0306
Areas of expertise: Aesthetics, Film, Latin American and Latino Studies, Personal and Social Identities, Digital Media, Contemporary Art, Documentary Studies, Feminist Studies, LGBT+, Cultural Studies
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B. Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media, specializing in the Social Documentation graduate program. She is also Editor of Film Quarterly (UC Press), the oldest film journal in the U.S. With a long history in film festival curating, museum exhibition, and public philanthropy before entering academia, she continues to participate in panels and juries at such major film festivals as Sundance, Toronto, and Provincetown. She is the author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut (1998) a... more »
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts, Dramaturgy, Middle Ages, New Media
Areas of expertise: South Asian Studies, European Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Religion and Secularism
Areas of expertise: Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Writing, Feminist Studies, Film and Politics, Marxism
Biography, Education and Training
Education PhD, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz (2016) MA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz (2010) BA, English, University of Chicago (2007) Teaching 2016-present: Lecturer, Writing, UCSC 2014-2016: Graduate Student Instructor, Literature and Writing, UCSC 2008-2014: Teaching Assistant, Literature, UCSC
Areas of expertise: Sociology, Cultural Studies, African American / Black Studies
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1983 - Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz1975 - M.A., Washington State University1972 - B.S., Florida A & M University Herman Gray is professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and has published widely in the areas of black cultural theory, politics, and media. Gray is the author of Watching Race (Minnesota) and Cultural Moves and he co-edited Towards a Sociology of the Trace with Macarena Gomez Barris (Minnesota). Most recently, he co-edited The Sage Handbook of Television with Manue... more »
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Jennifer Horne
Assistant Professor
jenny@ucsc.edu
(831) 600-7357
Areas of expertise: Film, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Archives, Archival Practices, Critical Theory, Feminist Studies, Documentary Studies
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Jennifer Horne's area of expertise is nontheatrical film and media, with an emphasis on the history of the factual, educational, film in governmental and institutional streams of activity. Her research interests span media citizenship, the history of institutional uses of film/video, media archaeologies, film exhibition histories, areas of film preservation and archiving that shape our understanding of film culture, and all aspects of these areas which touch gender and feminist history. Her publ... more »
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semurray@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Game Studies, Visual Arts, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Cinema, Digital Media, New Media, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
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Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M.F.A., University of California, Irvine, CA B.F.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
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Allison Arteaga Soergel
Public Information Representative, Social Sciences
asoergel@ucsc.edu
831-459-4399
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Border Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Literature
Biography, Education and Training
I'm Professor and chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2013 to 2018, I directed UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (formerly the Chicano Latino Research Center).In 2014, my colleagues and I launched our doctoral program, the first in the world to link Latinx studies and Latin American studies. I help shape and expand these fields and I work for a more diverse, equita... more »
Areas of expertise: History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
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B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Doctoral Candidate
Literature Department, Critical Race and Ethnic StudiesAreas of expertise: Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, War
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Talib is a doctoral candidate, teaching assistant, and instructor in literature and critical race and ethnic studies. He focuses on the racial and queer politics of American imperial militarism in Asia and its diasporas, with special attention to under-theorized regions of the so-called “war on terror,” e.g. Pakistan and the Philippines. He got his BA from UCSC and MS in social policy from Lund University (Sweden).
Areas of expertise: Activism, African Diaspora, Agroecology and Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Studies, Colonialism, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples, International Development, Latin American and Latino Studies, Marxism, Social Justice, Sustainability, Tropical Forest
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Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world. For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwes... more »
Areas of expertise: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Colonialism, Middle East Studies
Biography, Education and Training
I received my Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin, where I trained in transnational American studies, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, and comparative colonialisms. My research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, U.S. empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. My first book, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke University Press, 202... more »
Areas of expertise: China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Biography, Education and Training
I am a historian of transnational and modern China. My interests lie in the intersection of diasporas, nations, empires, regions, and genders. I am a proud alumna of the UCSC History graduate program, having received a Ph.D. here in 2009. Before my return, I taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madsion from 2011 to 2020 and at the University of Victoria from 2009 to 2011. I am the PI of the Transnational China research hub seeded by the UCSC Office of Res... more »
Areas of expertise: Disability, Writing, Social Justice, Cultural Studies
Biography, Education and Training
Dev K. Bose (he/him) earned a Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University in 2011. Having taught in and directed various university writing programs across the United States, Bose is interested in universal design for learning (UDL), with an emphasis on rhetorical privilege and access pertaining to technology, invisible disabilities, and neurodiversity. His work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, Intermezzo, Encu... more »
Professor of History of Consciousness
History of Consciousness Department, Science & Justice Research Center, Latin American & Latino Studies, Global & Community HealthAreas of expertise: Science and Technology, Social Theory, Social Movements, Science Studies, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Activism, Environmental Justice, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Visual Culture
Biography, Education and Training
Before joing the History of Consciousness Department I was Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Director of the Institute for Science and Society and Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Priority Cluster EcoSocieties at the University of Nottingham, UK, following appointments at the University of Leicester, Cardiff Universty, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, where I also earned his PhD. I have been a Leverhulme Fellow in the UK and an Alexander-von-Hum... more »
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