Barry A. Brown, Associate Professor, Communication
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Surrey

barry@ucsd.edu

Giovanna Chesler, Assistant Professor
M.F.A in Cinema, San Francisco State University (2002)

gchesler@ucsd.edu

mcole@ucsd.edu

Zeinabu Davis, Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
M.F.A., Film and Video Production, University of California, Los Angeles (1989)

zdavis@ucsd.edu

Kelly Gates, Assistant Professor, Communication
Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (2004)

• New media and information technologies
• Surveillance technologies and public policy
• Visual culture and digitization

kagates@ucsd.edu

Nitin Govil, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, New York University (2005)

• Comparative media, popular culture
• Globalization
• South Asia
• Social theory

ngovil@ucsd.edu

Daniel C. Hallin, Professor, Chair
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (1980)

• Media and politics
• Media and war
• History of American Journalism
• Comparative Media Systems, particularly Europe and Latin America.

dhallin@ucsd.edu

Michael Hanson, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (2002)

• Race and Racism
• Black Cultural Politics
• Popular Music
• Sport
• Cultural Theory

mhanson@ucsd.edu

vhartoun@ucsd.edu

Ariana Hernandez-Reguant, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago (2002)

• Expressive Cultures
• Culture Industries
• Cuba / Cuban diaspora
• Socialism and Post-Socialism

arianaATucsdDOTedu

Robert Horwitz, Professor,
Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University (1982)

• The state, markets, and political reform
• History of American communications and its regulation
• First Amendment and communications law
• The politics of post-apartheid South Africa (with emphasis on communication issues)
• Religion and communication

rhorwitz@ucsd.edu

Tom Humphries, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Cross Cultural Communication and Language Learning, Union Graduate School (1977)

• new practices in education
• communication and cultural processes
• voice and public expression of culture
• mediation of Deaf identity

thumphries@ucsd.edu

cmukerji@ucsd.edu

Carol Padden, Professor
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego (1983)

• language and mind
• evolution of language and culture
• language and globalization

cpadden@ucsd.edu