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Social Documentation Program Affiliated Faculty

Don Adams (UC Extension, Santa Cruz):  Director, Arts and Humanities Program.

David Henry Anthony III (History):  African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history.

Julianne Burton-Carvajal (Literature):  Twentieth- and 21st-century Latin(o) American visual media, particularly film; melodrama as a transnational form; gender and authorship; history, cultures, and representations of California, particularly the Central Coast.

Sharon Daniel (Film and Digital Media; Chair Digital Arts and New Media): Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design.

Jennifer Gonzalez (History of Art and Visual Culture):  Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

Miriam Greenberg (Sociology): Media studies, urban studies, globalization, political economy, and cultural production.

Irene Gustafson (Film and Digital Media): Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction, gender and queer studies, production design.

Eli E. Hollander (Film and Digital Media):  Film and video directing, editing, cinematography, videography, digital image generation, screenwriting.

Charles L. Lord (Film and Digital Media):  Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production.

Lourdes Martinez-Echazabal (Literature): Latin American and Caribbean literatures, Afro-Latin American literatures, cultures, and societies; found[n]ational narratives; Brazilian literature; literatures of Cuba and the Cuban diaspora; critical race theory.

Margaret Morse (Film and Digital Media):  Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary and science fiction.

Eric Porter (American Studies):  Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies; race, science, and technology

Warren Sack (Film and Digital Media): Software design and media theory.

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies): Transnational feminism, migration, Latin American / Latino studies, Chicana/o studies, technology and the body, sexuality.

Gustavo Vazquez (Film and Digital Media):  Film and video production, directing drama, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film, film curator.

Lewis Watts (Art):  Photography.