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Areas of expertise: Ethnography, Mass Media, Performance, Latin American and Latino Studies, LGBT+, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

I'm an anthropologist specialized in the ethnography of media. My first book is on the accomplishment of femininity among beauty pageant contestants (misses) and transgender women (transformistas) in Venezuela. My work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America, and the place of these subjects in the nation. I am co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA, a social justice organization... more »

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies

History Department

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Nathaniel Deutsch

Professor

ndeutsch@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Julie Bettie

Julie Bettie

Associate Professor of Sociology

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Sociology, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality, Ethnography


Biography, Education and Training

• 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.  

Regina D Langhout

Regina D Langhout

Professor, Personnel Director, Psychology Department, Associate Editor, American Journal of Community Psychology

Psychology Department

Areas of expertise: Community-based Research, Discrimination and Inequality, Ethnography, Psychology, Youth Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz


Areas of expertise: Ethnomusicology, Ethnography, Asian Music, Dance, Women's Studies


Biography, Education and Training

B.M., Peabody Conservatory, Institute of the Johns Hopkins University M.Mus., Goldsmiths College, University of London Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles


Areas of expertise: Russia, Ethnography, Poverty, Social Justice, Socialism, African Diaspora, Food/Nutrition, European Studies, Communism


Biography, Education and Training

Harvard University, Social Anthropology, Ph.D., A.M. Indiana University, Russian and East European Studies, M.A. University of Tennessee, Russian and East European Studies, B.A.

Cynthia Cruz

Cynthia Cruz

Associate Professor

Education Department

Areas of expertise: LGBT+, Diversity, Teacher Education, Ethnography, Social Justice


Biography, Education and Training

My research focuses on youth resistance, pedagogy, and testimonial narratives in urban educational spaces, with particular attention paid to the life experiences of LGBTQ street youth. I am also engaged in the conversation of how we represent youth of color in educational research, where deficit and other culture of poverty models often divest youth and their communities of agency or naturalize discourses of criminalization and poverty. It is through ethnography where I am able to engage and ext... more »


Areas of expertise: Ethnography


Biography, Education and Training

Megan Moodie (B.A. Skidmore College 1998; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006) is Associate Professor of Anthropology.

Kimberly Adilia Helmer

Kimberly Adilia Helmer

Teaching Professor (Senate Faculty)

Writing Program, Stevenson College

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Kimberly Adilia Helmer

Teaching Professor

Khelmer@ucsc.edu

805.320.0875


Areas of expertise: Teacher Education, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Writing, Anthropology, Ethnography


Biography, Education and Training

Kimberly Adilia Helmer holds an MA TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona. She is the recipient of two distinguished teaching prizes from the University of Arizona and John Jay College, CUNY.


Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Education, Critical Theory, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Ethnography, Marxism, School Reform and School Policy, United States Politics and Government


Biography, Education and Training

  Ph.D.  University of California Berkeley,  Social and Cultural Studies in Education B.A.     Brown University, Educational Studies & Critical Theory        


Areas of expertise: Folk Music, Border Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Mexico, Popular Music, Performance


Biography, Education and Training

Rodríguez began his education at home and in his community learning, Mexican folk, dance, and music. In 1974 he began his first music apprenticeship with Artemio Posadas learning son huasteco and son jarocho. By the age of 18 he was working full-time as a mariachi music in the South Bay Area. During the 1980s and 90s Rodríguez was also sought after to perform and do workshops at folk festivals in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In 1992, he returned to his stud... more »

Roberto de Roock

Roberto de Roock

Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology, Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship, Director, Everett Program for Technology and Social Change

Education Department

Areas of expertise: Activism, Science and Technology, Discrimination and Inequality, Ethnography, Language and Linguistics, Teacher Education, Marxism


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2015 Advisor: Norma González M.A. Language, Reading, & Culture University of Arizona, 2007 Advisor: Luis Moll B.A. History & Latin American Studies (dual degree) University of Arizona, 2003

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