Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

Assistant Professor of Communication

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies.

ariana at ucsd dot edu

Blog: Ethnocuba
Conference
On the News
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant and Jorge Ferrer interviewed
santero Obá Ernesto Pichardo. Interview.

Education

Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2002

Research

The Culture Industries, popular culture, music. film and media in Cuba. Theory of Cultural Production, Ideology and Culture.

Publications

Cuba and the Special Period

Cuba and the Special Period. Culture and Ideology in the 1990s. (Edited Volume). Palgrave-MacMillan 2009.

Review in the El Nuevo Herald

"Havana's Timba. The Macho Sound of Black Sex." In Kamari Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas. eds. "Globalization and Race. Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness". Durham: Duke University Press (2006).

"Radio Taino and the Cuban Quest for Identi... qué?" In Doris Sommer, ed. Cultural Agency in the Americas. Duke University Press, 2006.

"Cuba's Alternative Geographies." Special guest-edited issue of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology (Volume 10, Number 2, 2005).

Film Review Essay: "Return to Havana: Adio Kerida and the Films of the One-and-a-Half Generation", Journal of Latin American Anthropology, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall, 2004.

"Blackness with a Cuban Beat" NACLA 38 (2), September, 2004

"Copyrighting Che. Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism." Public Culture 16 (1), 2004.

"Kwanzaa and the US Ethnic Mosaic". Reproduced with Permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Wesport CT. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999

Courses

Undergraduate
COGN 150. Senior Seminar. Ideology and Culture under State Socialism. (Spring 07)
COMT 112. Ethnographic Methods for Media Research (Fall '05, '06)
COGN 150. Senior Seminar: Anthropology and Mass Culture (Spring '05)
COSF 175. Culture Wars: The Evolution Debate (Spring '06)
UCTV class broadcast
COCU 175/COCU 131 . The Cinema of the Cuban Revolution. (Spring 06, Spring 07)
COCU 131 (PDF). Cinema of the Cuban Revolution, The Films of Gutiérrez Alea. (Spring 08)

Graduate
COGR 296 - Communication Research/Interdisciplinary (Fall '04)
COGR 275 B00: The Frankfurt School on Mass Culture and Society (Spring '05)
COGR 201b. Ethnographic Methods (Fall '06)