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Areas of expertise: Latino/a Studies, American Studies, Print Media, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Studies, California History
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My broad zone of interest is the Americas, both before and after the fateful Indigenous-European contact of 1492. I study how written language conveys and confers power in the world. Sometimes that power shows up within a frame that people call “literature” (its definition is shifty); sometimes it is expressed as a recorded utterance; sometimes it sits quietly within a seemingly mundane note or glyph. The material forms by which writing is organized and distributed into things—... more »
Areas of expertise: American Music, American Studies, Baroque Studies, Experimental Music, Multiculturalism, Music, Musicology, US History, California History, Western Art Music
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B.A. with great distinction (music): Stanford University, 1969 M.M. (music history): Hartt College of Music, 1971 Ph.D. (musicology): Stanford University, 1978
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: Chicana/o Studies, American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Sexuality, Poverty
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Ph.D., Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
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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: American Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts, Dramaturgy, Middle Ages, New Media
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Michael Chemers researches the “dramaturgy of empathy,” a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary inquiry that seeks to understand how performance culture fosters compassion and kindness (and conversely, fear and hatred). Michael is the creator of the 'Ghost Light' model of dramaturgy: a muscular, creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach to dramaturgy that requires thorough historical understanding, theoretical training broad and deep, and a passionate dedication to creating powerful, re... more »
Areas of expertise: Activism, Art Theory, Feminist Theory, Aesthetics, American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts
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Jennifer A. González, Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture, is affiliated with the History of Consciousness, Latin American/Latinx Studies, and Feminist Studies. She also teaches annual seminars at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has published widely in journals such as Camera Obscura, Bomb, Ope... more »
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property, Public Art
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Jon holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, a Masters in Anthropology from Portland State University, a Masters in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Nebraska.
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Jennifer Horne
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jenny@ucsc.edu
831 459 2142
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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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
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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: Archives, Archival Practices, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Film, American Studies, Popular Culture
Areas of expertise: Activism, Environmental Justice, Science and Technology, American Studies, Sustainability, California History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley B.A., Politics with Honors, Oberlin College
Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnography, American Studies, Urban studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Slavery
Areas of expertise: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Colonialism, Middle East Studies
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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: American Studies
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Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, I arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 8. I attended Hollywood High School, where I was editor of the school newspaper and served as senior class president. I did my undergradute work in history at Occidental College and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University before taking a position as a staff writer at the Miami Herald during years when newspapers were still a major source of communication. I earned an MA and PhD in English at th... more »
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