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Jih-Fei Cheng

Jih-Fei received his B.A. in Communication with minors in Chinese Studies and Literature from the University of California, San Diego, holds a M.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently a Ph.D. student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.  He has worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a university cultural center, and has previously served on the board of various community-based organizations in Los Angeles and New York City, such as the Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!).  His research interests include the role of sexuality in US-based anti-imperialist social movements, science studies, the advent of nineteenth-century to present sound and visual technologies used in science and entertainment, theories of the body, pathology, popular, visual, and sound cultures, and performance. 

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Clyde Woods

Professor Woods earned his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and has taught at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the regional organization of poverty, power, race, and culture in the United States. His first book, Development Arrested examined these relationships in the rural Mississippi Delta and his upcoming study will address the role these social forces played in the construction of Black Los Angeles, from 1781 to the present. Another research area focuses on the philosophical and analytic contributions of Blues, Jazz, and Hip Hop. As part of this work, he recently co-edited Black Geographies and the Politics of Place with Katherine McKittrick. Finally, Professor Woods has initiated two long-term-research projects based in the Department. The first examines and supports the rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. The second project is designed to create a network of community members and scholars who are both studying Black Los Angeles and developing innovative policy solutions. 

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Judith Halberstam

Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Gender Studies at USC. Halberstam works in the areas of popular, visual and queer culture with an emphasis on subcultures. Halberstam’s first book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (1995), was a study of popular gothic cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries and it stretched from Frankenstein to contemporary horror film. Her 1998 book, Female Masculinity (1998), made a ground breaking argument about non-male masculinity and tracked the impact of female masculinity upon hegemonic genders. Halberstam’s last book, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), described and theorized queer reconfigurations of time and space in relation to subcultural scenes and the emergence of transgender visibility. This book devotes several chapters to the topic of visual representation of gender ambiguity. Halberstam was also the co-author with Del LaGrace Volcano of a photo/essay book, The Drag King Book (1999), and with Ira Livingston of an anthology, Posthuman Bodies (1995). Halberstam regularly speaks on visual culture and publishes journalism in venues like BITCH Magazine and The Nation; she is currently finishing one book on “The Politics of Knowledge” and beginning another on “Bats.”

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Kent A. Ono

Kent A. Ono (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) conducts research on rhetoric and discourse, media and film, and race, ethnic, and cultural studies. He has published several books and has contributed essays to numerous journals, including Communication Monographs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Cultural Studies. Ono directed the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2002-2007. He also directed the Cultural Studies Program at the University of California at Davis from 1999-2002. He founded the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Cluster at UC Davis in 1997. He wrote the proposal to create the journal, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He helped propose, organize and chair the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA from 2000-2001; chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of NCA in 1996-1997; co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies (1999-2001); and has planned several conferences. He co-edits the book series “Critical Cultural Communication” with Sarah Banet-Weiser at New York University Press. He is also co-editor-elect of the journal “Critical Studies in Media Communication” with Ronald Jackson.

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Anna Brickhouse

Anna Brickhouse is Associate Professor of American Studies and Hemispheric Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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Brenda Gayle Plummer

Brenda Gayle Plummer is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a historian whose research includes race and gender, international relations, and civil rights. Her work ranges from essays on Haitian-American relations to studies of Afro-Americans, race, and foreign affairs. Plummer has taught Afro-American history throughout her twenty years experience in higher education.  Plummer has taught at historically black Fisk University, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin.

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Tara McPherson

Tara McPherson teaches courses in digital media, television, and popular culture. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture, a USC’s Phi Kappa Phi award for outstanding scholarship, and was a finalist for the Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, Race in Cyberspace, 24, The New Media Handbook, The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, Virtual Publics and Basketball Jones.

She is currently co-editing two anthologies on new technology (including one for the MacArthur Foundation’s initiative in Digital Media and Learning) and working on a book manuscript on new media.

McPherson was co-organizer of the 1999 conference Interactive Frictions and is among the founding organizers of Race in Digital Space, an initiative supported by the Annenberg Center for Communication and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. A member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Television Academy Archives, McPherson is a core member of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), has served as an AFI Television Awards juror, is on the board of several journals, and is the founding editor of Vectors.

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George Lipsitz

George Lipsitz studies social movements, urban culture, and inequality. His books include MIDNIGHT AT THE BARRELHOUSE, FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN WHITENESS, A LIFE IN THE STRUGGLE, and TIME PASSAGES. Lipsitz serves as chairman of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum and is a member of the board of directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance. He received his Ph.D in history at the University of Wisconsin.

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Kara Keeling

Kara Keeling is Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the school of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on Third Cinema and feminist film, representations of race, sexuality, and gender in cinema, critical theory, cultural studies, and African cinema. Her book, The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Senseexplores the role of cinematic images in the construction and maintenance of hegemonic conceptions of the world and interrogates the complex relationships between cinematic visibility, minority politics, and the labor required to create and maintain alternative organizations of social life.

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Macarena Gomez-Barris

Macarena Gomez-Barris is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her interests primarily lie in cultural sociology, particularly as it relates to Latina/o and Latin American studies, gender and race representations as well as political violence and its aftermath. Her most recent work examines the memory politics of representation and culture in the aftermath of Chile’s dictatorship.

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William Deverell

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth century American West. He has written works on political, social, ethnic, and environmental history. He is currently at work on a book exploring the history of the post-Civil War American West; his interest in this period has to do with the ways in which the West was or was not a convalescent landscape for the wounded nation and its wounded soldiers. With David Igler of UC Irvine, he is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to California, and with Greg Hise of USC, he is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles. He directs the new Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; please consult the website at www.usc.edu/icw for more information. His graduate students at USC work on a variety of topics on the history of the West, ranging from the West’s racial and ethnic history, to the rise of conservative politics in the Southwest, and the western U.S. connections to the Pacific Rim.

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Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Kelly Lytle Hernandez is associate professor in the UCLA Department of History and Associate Co-Director of the National Center for History in the Schools. Her research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration upon race, migration, and police and prison systems in the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her new book, MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010) is the first book to tell the story of how and why the U.S. Border Patrol concentrates its resources upon policing unsanctioned Mexican immigration despite the many possible targets and strategies of U.S. migration control. Her current research focuses upon exploring the social world of incarceration in Los Angeles between 1876 and 1965. 

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José Muñoz

José Muñoz is Associate Professor of Performance Studies. His research interests are Latino Studies; queer theory critical race theory; global mass cultures; performance art; film and video. His has published Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minnesota, 1999). His new book, Feeling Brown: Ethnicity, Affect and Performance (Duke), is forthcoming.

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Bruce Burgett

Bruce Burgett is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where he teaches courses in race, sexuality, literature, art, politics, theory, and social change. His research interests fall into an a number of broad categories, including American studies, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, critical race studies, transnationalism, and political theory. He has published books and articles on these subjects and is currently completing his second book, tentatively entitled American Sex: Cultures of Sexual Reform in and beyond the Antebellum US. In addition to serving as an Advisory Editor for the American Quarterly, he has been a consultant for several scholarly presses and has served on the Editorial Boards of American Literary History and American Literature. 

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Ned Blackhawk

Ned Blackhawk is an Associate Professor of History. His specializations are North American Indian History, Culture, and Identity from U.S. Colonial to 21st Century; Race and Multiculturalism; Comparative Colonialisms. His research and teaching Interests include American Indian history, U.S.West, Spanish Borderlands, Comparative Colonialism, and Race and Violence.

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Donald Pease

Donald Pease, professor of English, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program and winner of the 1981 Distinguished Teaching Award at Dartmouth, is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. In the summer of 1986 he brought the School of Criticism and Theory to Dartmouth.  In 1996 he founded the Dartmouth Institute in American Studies and in 1997 he has also served as Academic Director of the Alumni College program. A recipient of a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he is the author of Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context(which won the Mark Ingraham Prize for the best new book in the Humanities in 1987) and of over seventy articles on figures in American and British literature and The Culture of United States Imperialism.  He is the co-editor of American Renaissance Rediscovered and the editor of seven other volumes including The Futures of American Studies. Professor Pease is general editor of a series of books by Duke University Press called “The New Americanists.” He has been awarded Guggenheim, Mellon and Hewlett fellowships and has twice received an NEH Directorship to teach college teachers about nineteenth-century American Literature.  Professor Pease received the Faculty Award for Service to Alumni Continuing Education in 1999, awarded by Dartmouth’s Alumni Council. In 2000, he was the Drue Heinz Visiting Professor at Oxford University.

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Maria E. Montoya

Maria E. Montoya is associate professor in the Department of History at New York University. 

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Elana Zilberg

Elana Zilberg is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego where she writes and teaches on the contentious spatial and cultural politics surrounding the uneven flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas between Los Angeles and Central America. She has published in Wide Angle and City and Society, and is currently completing a book manuscript entitled From Riots to Rampart: Culture, Mobility and the Politics of Simultaneity between Los Angeles and El Salvador. The book is based on a dissertation completed in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin in 2002, and on postdoctoral research conducted in 2002-03 through a fellowship with the Social Science Research Council’s Global Security and Cooperation Program.

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Henry Yu

Henry Yu is associate professor in the departments of history at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, and at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also a faculty member at the Asian American Studies Center. Currently, he is working on developing collaborative research and teaching on trans-Pacific migration, as well as a book entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes. His book, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (2001), focuses on the importance of migration and Asian Americans in the social scientific production of ideas about race and culture, and received the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize for Most Distinguished Book from the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch.

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Michael Nevin Willard

Michael Nevin Willard is assistant professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Oklahoma State University.  He will join the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles as an assistant professor of Liberal Studies in the fall of 2005. His most recent publication on Los Angeles appears in America in the Seventies (2004).

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Josh Sides

Josh Sides is assistant professor of history at Cal Poly Pomona. He is the author of L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (2004).

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Victor Hugo Viesca

Victor Hugo Viesca is an assistant professor in the Liberal Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. He teaches courses on popular culture, race and ethnicity, and twentieth-century urbanism.

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Sarah Schrank

Sarah Schrank received her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, San Diego. She is assistant professor of United States urban and cultural history at California State University, Long Beach and the author of “Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark,” in Stephanie Barron, Ilene Fort, and Sheri Bernstein, eds., Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 (2000). Schrank is the recipient of Haynes research grants from the Huntington Library and the Historical Society of Southern California and currently holds a year-long fellowship at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, where she will complete her forthcoming book on Los Angeles spatial politics and art communities.

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Kristen Hill Maher

Kristen Hill Maher is an assistant professor of political science at San Diego State University. She writes on women’s labor migration, immigrant rights, and anti-immigrant politics, based on fieldwork in Southern California and Santiago, Chile.

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Marisela Norte

Marisela Norte is considered one of the most important literary voices to come out of East Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Interview, Elle, Option, Venice, the Los Angeles Weekly, Buzz, the LA Opinion, and the anthologies Microphone Fiends, Bordered Sexualities: Bodies on the Verge of a Nation, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, and Rolling Stone’s Women of Rock. Norte lives in East Los Angeles, is a member of PEN West, the Bus Riders Union, and the Progressive Jewish Alliance as well as a long-time volunteer at the East Los Angeles Women’s Center. Her latest works include East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights and the upcoming Scenes From the Dining Room.

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George Lipsitz

George Lipsitz is the author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger (2001) and editor of the Critical American Studies series at the University of Minnesota Press. His publications include The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (1998), Dangerous Crossroads (1997), Rainbow at Midnight (1994), Time Passages (1990), The Sidewalks of St. Louis (1991), and A Life in the Struggle (1988). He also serves as co-editor of the American Crossroads series at the University of California Press. Lipsitz has been active in fights for fair housing and educational equity at the local and national levels, and is currently working on a book about social movements and historical change.

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Anthony Macías

Anthony Macías is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches Chicano studies. His research interests include twentieth-century American cultural history, comparative race and ethnicity, and popular cultural production, circulation, and reception. He is currently writing a book, titled Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968.

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Josh Kun

Josh Kun is Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. A former Arts Writers Fellow with The Sundance Institute, he is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (UC Press) which won a 2006 American Book Award. His articles on popular music, the pop cultures of the US-Mexico border, and the music of Los Angeles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies. He is director of The Popular Music Project (www.usc.edu/pmp) at USC Annenberg’s The Norman Lear Center.

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Greg Hise

Greg Hise is associate professor of urban history in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California, where he holds joint appointments in the departments of history and geography. He is co-author (with William Deverell) of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), a co-editor of Rethinking Los Angeles (1996) and of the forthcoming Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Greater Los Angeles. This essay is drawn from a work-in-progress, Ciudad to City, a history of property, social distance, and the local state that focuses on the ways Angelenos came to know race-ethnicity through architecture and landscape.

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Regina Freer

Regina Freer is an associate professor and chair of the Politics Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She recently completed her term as a 2003–04 Institute for American Cultures postdoctoral fellow in the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a co-author of the forthcoming book, The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City (2004), which examines connections between historical and contemporary progressive social justice organizing in Los Angeles. She also authored "Black Korean Conflict," a chapter in the edited volume, The Los Angeles Riots. Her current project is a political biography of Charlotta Bass.

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Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an associate professor of Chicana/o studies and English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Masters House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition (1998), Sor Juana’s Second Dream: A Novel (1999), and the forthcoming Desert Blood/The Juárez Murders (2005). She is also the editor of Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities (2003).

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Dana Cuff

Dana Cuff is professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also holds a joint appointment with the Urban Planning Department. She received her Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and has since published and lectured widely about postwar American urbanism, the modern evolution of Los Angeles, the architectural profession, and affordable housing. Her most recent book, The Provisional City (2000), analyzes urban transformation through a number of private and public housing projects in Los Angeles, from their initial design to their eventual demolition. She is currently working on a book concerning the architectural, social, and technological transformation of the contemporary
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Penny Von Eschen

Penny Von Eschen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her fields of study include African Americans and the politics of culture, particularly transnational cultural and political dynamics, and race, gender, and empire, especially the political culture of United States imperialism. She is author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz, Race and Empire During the Cold War forthcoming from Harvard University Press, and Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (1997), for which received the 1998 Stuart L. Bernath book prize from the Historians of Foreign Relations and the Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.

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Roopali Mukherjee

Roopali Mukherjee is Associate Professor of Media Studies. She is also a faculty member in the Film Studies and Africana Studies programs, and serves as Assistant Director of the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College.

She writes about race and American public culture. Her book The Racial Order of Things: Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era was published in 2006 by the University of Minnesota Press. She is currently working on a second book on African Americans and consumer culture in the contemporary United States. She is also co-editing two scholarly anthologies: Undoing Leviathan: Multidisciplinary Readings of the State (with Professor Priya Jaikumar, Univ of Southern California) and Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (with Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser, Univ of Southern California).

She teaches courses on news analysis, media and activism, political communication, and African Americans in film and television.

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Melani McAlister

Melani McAlsister is Associate Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University, where she teaches courses on U.S. cultural history, the U.S. in the world, culture and globalization, and the 1970s. Her areas of expertise include cultural encounters between the United States and the Middle East from 1945 to the present, the U.S. religious right and foreign policy, and globalization. She has written extensively on these topics in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation, and the Journal of American History’s special issue on History and September 11. She is the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (2001) and is currently working on a book about the ways in which popular culture has played a role in the mainstreaming of evangelical politics. 

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Min-Jung Kim

Min-Jung Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. 

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Sharon P. Holland

Sharon P. Holland is an associate professor of English and African & African American Studies and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Raising The Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (2000), which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association in 2002. She has published in the fields of African American, Feminist and Queer studies and is currently at work on a second book project, “Between Fabrication and Generation(s)’: Telling the Story of a Woman.” In addition to this critical project, Professor Holland is also at work on a novel, “How Bubba the Socrates Got to be Neither.”

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Julie Sze

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. and in that capacity is the Faculty Advisor for 25 Stories from the Central Valley.

Sze’s book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies.

Sze’s research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production.

Sze has been interviewed widely in print and on the radio: World’s Fair, MELDI, Newsweek, Asian Reporter, and Grist Magazine.

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Natalia Molina

Natalia Molina is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her first book, Fit to be Citizens? Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939, explored ways in which race is constructed relationally and regionally. In that work, she argued that race must be understood comparatively. Her current book project, Racial Amnesia: The Search for a Usable Past, extends that argument to a different site, immigration. She investigates how Americans from various regions and disparate backgrounds went about creating and understanding racial categories during a period of peak immigration in the early twentieth century.

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Josh Kun

Josh Kun is Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Southern California. He holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. A former Arts Writers Fellow with The Sundance Institute, he is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (UC Press) which won a 2006 American Book Award. His articles on popular music, the pop cultures of the US-Mexico border, and the music of Los Angeles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies. He is director of The Popular Music Project (www.usc.edu/pmp) at USC Annenberg’s The Norman Lear Center.

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Karen Tongson

Karen Tongson joined the USC faculty in English and Gender Studies in fall 2005. Before coming to USC, Tongson held a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Literature at UC San Diego, and a UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Residential Research Fellowship at UC Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Tongson’s work on popular culture, queer studies, performance, music and literature has appeared in such journals as Social Text, GLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and The International Journal of Communication, as well as in the anthologies Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBTQ Studies (eds. Haggerty and McGarry). Her first book, titled RELOCATIONS: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, is forthcoming in the 2010-2011 academic year, as part of the New York University Press “Sexual Cultures” Series. Professor Tongson is also a co-founder and regular contributor to the “culture industry” webzine OH! INDUSTRY (http://www.ohindustry.com), and in 2010 has been named Executive Editor of “The Journal of Popular Music Studies” alongside Gustavus Stadler. 

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Glenn Hendler

Glenn Hendler is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He is the author of Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (North Carolina, 2001), which explores “the logic of sympathy” in fiction by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathanial Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. He is also co-editor, with Mary Chapman, of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (California, 1999) (California, 1999). In 2007 Hendler completed two editing projects: an edition of Walt Whitman’s temperance novel Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate (co-edited with Christopher Castiglia, published by Duke University Press) and Keywords for American Cultural Studies (co-edited with Bruce Burgett, published by NYU Press), as well as an interactive website for research and pedagogy tied to Keywords (keywords.nyupress.org).  He is currently working on a book exploring the representation of emotion and collective public violence to be called Riot Acts: Writing Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century America.

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Daniel Widener

Daniel Widener is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he teaches African American history and California history. His work examines expressive culture, race, ethnicity and political radicalism, and his essays have appeared in Positions, Emergences, and other venues.  Prof. Widener’s book manuscript is titled Black Arts West: Cultures of Struggle in Black Los Angeles, 1942-1992. It examines the postwar black freedom struggle from the point of view of expressive culture, arguing that culture formed a central dimension of black efforts to eliminate segregation, transform the institutional limitations of urban reform, and engage the incorporative politics that followed black electoral successes during the Bradley years (1973-92).

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Shelley Streeby

Shelley Streeby received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. in English from Harvard University. She is the author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (University of California Press, American Crossroads Series, 2002), which received the American Studies Association’s 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. Based on extensive archival research on the literatures and cultures of nineteenth-century expansionism, including dime novels, crime gazettes, story papers, and Spanish-language corridos, this book argues for the centrality of the US-Mexico War (1846-8) and mid-nineteenth-century empire-building in the Americas in the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formations. She is also co-editor (with Jesse Alemán) of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction (Rutgers University Press, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas Series, 2007).

She works in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies, with a specialization in U.S. historical and literary studies through the early 20th century. She offers courses in Literatures in English, Cultural Studies, Literature/Theory, Literatures of the Americas, and Literatures of the World. Her teaching and research interests include comparative studies of colonialism and empire; war, violence, memory, and visual culture; histories of popular and mass culture; transformations in literary production, print networks, and communities of readers; sentimental and sensational literature; political theory, social movements, and American Studies; the US West and the Western in transnational contexts; and science fiction.  In 2006, she received the Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

She is currently working on a book on transnational movements in U.S. literature and visual culture from 1886, the year of the Haymarket riot in Chicago, through 1927, the year that Marcus Garvey was deported. She also serves on the managing editorial board of American Quarterly: The Journal of the American Studies Association.

He is the author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Claire Jean Kim

Claire Jean Kim holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Political Science and Asian American Studies. She also holds a courtesy appointment in African American Studies. She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000) which won the American Political Science Association’s Ralph Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism. From 1999-2000, Kim was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In Fall 2009, she will be a fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her current book project explores the intersections of race, culture, nation, and species in the contemporary U.S.

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Jeb Middlebrook

Jeb Middlebrook is an antiracist scholar, organizer, and poet. He is a former managing editor of American Quarterly and a PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is also director of the Solidarity Institute, a national organization that uses research, events, and projects to connect diverse communities in a collective vision for social justice. His dissertation, Challenging the White Supremacist System: Antiracist Organizing and Multiracial Alliance in the United States, is an interdisciplinary, ethnic studies project that traces a historical genealogy of allied organizing between white people and people of color against the white supremacist system. His academic interests include race, social movements, and popular culture which span the disciplines of Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and History. Jeb will be on the job market for a tenure-track position as a university professor in 2010-2011.

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Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Rosa-Linda Fregoso held faculty appointments at UC-Davis (Women and Gender Studies; Chicana/o Studies) and at UC-Santa Barbara in the departments of Communications and Chicano Studies. She has a PhD in the Language, Society & Culture Program (Communication & Literature) from the University of California, San Diego; and a BJ from the University of Texas, Austin.

Before coming to Academia, she worked as a radio and television journalist. Between 1979-1982, produced and hosted “The Mexican American Experience” for the Longhorn Radio Network (an NPR affiliate). A weekly radio-program, “The Mexican American Experience,” aired nationally on public and commercial radio stations. From 1977-79, she produced and hosted “Telecorpus,” a daily talkshow that aired on KORO-TV. 

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Sarah Banet-Weiser

Sarah Banet-Weiser is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at USC Annenberg and the department of American Studies and Ethnicity. Her teaching and research interests include feminist theory, race and the media, youth culture, popular and consumer culture, and citizenship and national identity. She teaches courses in culture and communication, gender and media, youth culture, feminist theory and cultural studies.

Her first book, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (University of California Press, 1999), explores a popular cultural ritual, the beauty pageant, as a space in which national identities, desires, and anxieties about race and gender are played out.  She has also authored a book on consumer citizenship and the children’s cable network: Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2007), in addition to her co-edited book, Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting, co-edited with Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas (New York University Press, 2007). Her current book project, Authentic TM: Political Possibility in a Brand Culture (New York University Press, forthcoming) examines brand culture, youth, and political possibility through an investigation of self-branding, creativity, politics, and religion.  A co-edited book, Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times, co-edited with Roopali Muhkerjee, is under contract with New York University Press (forthcoming 2011).  She has published articles in the academic journals Critical Studies and Media Communication, Feminist Theory, the International Journal of Communication, and Television and New Media, among others.

She co-edits, with Kent Ono, a book series with New York University Press, “Critical Cultural Communication.”