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Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
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Nathaniel Deutsch
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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
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Ph.D. University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Critical Theory, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Media Studies, Contemporary Cinema, African American / Black Studies
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Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with particular attention to technocultural engagements with identity and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as Radical History Review, American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumptio... more »
Areas 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: African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Modernism, Poetry, Visual Culture
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Poet and critic, David Marriott, was born and educated in England and received his Ph.D. in literature from the University of Sussex. His first book, On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press, 2000; Columbia University Press, 2000), was an interdisciplinary study of how models of selfhood come to acquire cultural recognition through the aberrant fictions of race. His second book, Haunted Life (forthcoming Rutgers University Press), extends this meditation on discourses of inwardness and the parad... more »
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Susan Gillman
Areas of expertise: Literature, African American / Black Studies, American Studies, Race, US History, Slavery, Ocean Studies, Language and Linguistics, Popular Culture, Atlantic World
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I am a scholar of race and slavery in the United States, the Americas, and beyond. From my usual base in the nineteenth century, I approach the study of national literatures and cultures from a “worlded” perspective developed by the cluster in World Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSC. My first book – focusing on Mark Twain’s lifelong interest in identity and imposture - explores his engagement with the changing systems of racial classification in the late nineteenth-... more »
Areas of expertise: Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History
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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2006 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2003 B.A., Boston University, 1999
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 »
Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, Colonialism, Film, Subsaharan Africa, Jazz
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Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Asian Studies, Art, Art Theory, Queer Studies, Performance, Poetry, Fiction, Visual Culture, Writing
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Education: 2009 Ph.D., English, CUNY Graduate Center 1995 M.A., Poetry, New York University Graduate Creative Writing Program 1991 A.B., English, University of California, Berkeley Biography: Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, academic and author of six collections of hybrid and experimental works spanning poetry, fiction, mixed genre theory, performance, digital, sound, and visual art. He has performed in multiple ... more »
Areas of expertise: Asian American Pacific Islander History, African American / Black Studies, Poetry, Literature
Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism
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(On sabbatical until Fall 2023) I trained in critical theory, black radical thought, and feminist theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I received a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness with an emphasis in Feminist Studies and served as a founding coordinator of the Black Cultural Studies Research Cluster and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Graduate Collective. After two years as faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies at th... more »
Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnography, American Studies, Urban studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Slavery
Areas of expertise: Sociology, African Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Immigration, Activism, Discrimination and Inequality, Labor and Social Movements
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PhD: Geography and Science and Technology Studies, UC Berkeley (2018) MPA: Brown University (2010) AB: International Relations and Africana Studies, Brown University (2009)
Areas of expertise: African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Environmental Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Social Justice
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Research - Medical College of Wisconsin PhD, Geography & the Environment - University of Texas at Austin MA, Latin American Studies - University of Texas at Austin
Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, African American / Black Studies, African Diaspora, Africana Studies, History, Latino/a Studies
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Thiago H. Mota (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of African History. Fully trained in the Global South, he earned a PhD in Social History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (with a cotutelle at the University of Lisbon, Portugal). During and after his doctoral studies, Dr Mota conducted research in several countries, such as Brazil, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Senegal, working on the early process of social spreading of Islam... more »
Areas of expertise: Theater, Playwriting, Direction (Theater), African Diaspora, African American / Black Studies, Feminist Theory, Writing
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Professor Rollins (she/her) is a writer, director and new work developer. She is a Member of Dramatist Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers. She has been a writing resident with Djerassi, Hedgebrook, CALLALOO London and more. She received a Wallace Gerbode Playwright Award for a commission with Crowded Fire Theater for her new play KARA. She was honored with a “Bay Brilliant” Artist Award from San Francisco’s KQE... more »
Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Women's Studies, Activism, US History, Race, Digital Humanities
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D, University of Washington, 2018 M.A., Universitiy of Georgia, 2012 B.A., Fisk University, 2010
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