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  Herman S. Gray

Herman S. Gray

Professor

831-459-3715 (office)

831-459-3516 (message)

 

Social Sciences Division

Sociology Department

Professor

Faculty

American Studies Department
Humanities Division
Feminist Studies Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Regular Faculty

Sociology
Cultural Studies
African American / Black Studies

Faculty Webpage

Rachel Carson College Academic Building
327

Tuesdays 3:30-4:30, Thursdays 2:00-4:00; and by appointment

Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

1983 - Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
1975 - M.A., Washington State University
1972 - 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 Manuel Alvarado, Milly Buoanno and Toby Miller.

Media, Race, Television Studies, Cultural Politics, Jazz Studies

Awards

  • 2002. John Segenthaler Chair of Excellence, Presented by Tennessee State University’s School of Communication.
  • 2002. Resident Scholar at the University of California Irvine’s Humanities Research Institute.
  • 1997. Resident Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy.

Public Lecture or Forum Participation

  • 2014. "The Culture of Work, Cultural Work: Changing Conceptions of Work,” for the UC Humanities Research Institute in Mexico City, Mexico. INVITED
  • 2014. Co-Convener for the Annenberg Summer Institute for Diversity and Media at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. INVITED
  • 2013. Panel Discussion: Reflections on "The Stuart Hall Project" at the University of California – Santa Cruz. INVITED

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

  • 2014. "Creative Industries, Marketing Diversity and Managing Difference," presented at the Trajectories and Local Logics of Screen Media Labor Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Seattle. PEER REVIEWED/INVITED
  • 2013. Chair, Comment of the Sonic Ledgers of Dissent Panel at the American Studies Association in Washington, D.C. INVITED
  • 2012. "The Politics of Representation: Should the Politics of Representation be History,” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston. PEER REVIEWED/INVITED

Books

Edited Books

Chapters in Books

  • 2010. “John Coltrane and the Practice of Freedom,” in John Coltrane and Black American's Quest For Freedom, Spirituality and the Music. Oxford University Press.
  • 2009. "Critical Comment: Tongues Untied," in Bent Light: A History of the Avante Garde Moving Image in the Bay Area, 1945-2000. Edited by S. Anker, K. Gertiz, and S. Seid. University of Berkeley Press.
  • 2006. "Katrina: Where the Natural and the Social Meet," in Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Santa Cruz, New Pacific Press.

Journal Articles

SOCY 116 Communication and Mass Media
SOCY 263 Cultural Politics of Differences
SOCY 134 TV and the Nation
SOCY 260 Culture, Knowledge, Power
SOCY 208 Writing Practicum
SOCY 133 Currents in Afric Amer Cultural Politics
SOCY 209 Cultural Forms

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