Faculty

Patty Ahn

Assistant Teaching Professor
858-534-9835
MCC 246
pahn@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Asian/Asian American studies, contemporary Korean and Korean American political economic and cultural history, postcolonial and feminist theory, cultural theories of global media and hallyu (the Korean Wave), digital storytelling and transmedia activism

Morana Alac

Associate Professor, Science Studies
(858) 534-7229
MCC 102
malac@ucsd.edu
Areas of interest: ethnomethodology, interaction with technology, gesture, multimodality, and the senses.

Patrick Anderson

Professor, Vice Chair for General Administration
Department of Ethnic Studies joint appointment
(858) 534-2356
MCC 204
pwa@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: performance studies and cultural studies, focusing in particular on the constitutive role of violence, mortality, and pain in the production and experience of political subjectivity.

Boatema Boateng

Associate Professor
(858) 534-8990
MCC 104
bboateng@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, Transnational Gender Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.

Angela Booker

Associate Professor, Vice Chair for Academic Personnel
(858) 246-1850
MCC 208
a1booker@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Youth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods

Lisa Cartwright

Affiliated Professor Visual Arts/Science Studies

(858) 822-2695

lisac@ucsd.edu

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Assistant Professor
858-246-2516
MCC 106
mcazcarate@ucsd.edu
Political ecology, ethnography, social and urban anthropology, critical geography, development and tourism studies, space, capitalism, Southern Mexico.

Zeinabu irene Davis

Professor
(858) 534-6328
MCC 124A
zdavis@ucsd.edu
Research and production interests: altering and diversifying the terrain of mass media, film history, world cinema and folklore, African and African American cinema.

Andrew deWaard

Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture
(858) 534-6325
MCC 229A
adewaard@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: cultural industries, the political economy of media, financial capital, media authorship, and the digital humanities

Fernando Domínguez Rubio

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
(858) 534-7192
MCC 229B
dorubio@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: sociology, science and technology studies, anthropology, art, design and architecture
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Alexander Fattal

Assistant Professor
858-246-5342
MCC 107
afattal@ucsd.edu
Research interests: representational politics surrounding Colombia’s war, media studies, socio-cultural anthropology, the documentary arts, film and photography projects with immigrant, refugee, and marginalized communities.

Gary Fields

Professor
(858) 534-2365
MCC 101
gfields@ucsd.edu
Research interests: theoretically-driven, actor-centered accounts of power and processes of territorial transformation fusing geography, history, and political economy while maintaining a commitment to a scholarship of activism and critical engagement with the world.

Kelly Gates

Associate Professor, Science Studies
(858) 534-7249
MCC 243
kagates@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: critical analysis of digital media technologies, the politics and social implications of computerization and the automation of surveillance in the United States from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

Stuart Geiger

Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (joint appointment)

Phone and Office TBD

sgeiger@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: social, cultural, and political aspects of data science, automation, and AI; governance and moderation of online platforms and communities; knowledge infrastructures; science and technology studies; ethnography in online and distributed contexts; computational and mixed methods

Brian Goldfarb

Associate Professor and Chair
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Education Studies, Faculty Director, UCSD Minor in Public Service
(858) 534-2366
MCC 130
bgoldfarb@ucsd.edu
Research and Creative Practice Interests: contemporary visual and digital culture, disability studies and education, media technologies and digital communication, pedagogy, postcolonial politics, environmental activism, museum curatorship

Daniel C. Hallin

Distinguished Professor
(858) 534-2843
MCC 229C
dhallin@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: journalism, political communication, comparative analysis of media systems, wars in Vietnam, Central America, and the Gulf War, television coverage of elections and the shrinking "sound bite," political journalism, and the rise and decline of journalist professionalism, health and medical reporting, and the mediatization of health and medicine

Erin T. Hill

Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture
858-822-2239
MCC 241
ethill@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: historical and contemporary media production in the United States, gender, race and class in creative labor sectors, feminized labor in U.S. film and television production, and Hollywood's development sector.

Robert Horwitz

Vice-chair, University of California Systemwide Academic Senate, and Professor
(858) 534-9981
MCC 209
rhorwitz@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: democracy, the state, communication, and political reform.

Lilly Irani

Associate Professor, Science Studies
(858) 534-3572
MCC 205
lirani@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, and South Asia studies, how technical practices are shaped by hierarchies of value, gender, race, and the cultural and economic project called ‘modernity.’

Caroline Jack

Assistant Professor
(858) 246-5996
MCC 242
cjack@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: media history, business history, communication studies, and how people in power (and people who want to have power) use media for strategic sensemaking, especially around the role of business in society.

Shawna Kidman

Assistant Professor
(858) 534-5210
MCC 229D
skidman@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: media industries, broadcast and cable history, streaming content and digital distribution, copyright law, media audiences, and contemporary issues related to pop culture and society.

Daniel Martinico

Assistant Teaching Professor
858-246-5343
MCC 122C
dmartinico@ucsd.edu
Media Production Interests:

Creative Practice and Teaching Interests: Critical Media Production

Carol Padden

Professor, Dean: Division of Social Sciences, Faculty affiliate: Center for Research in Language, Human Development, Education Studies
Dean’s office: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 501
Research offices: Cognitive Science Building (CSB) 262-265
deansocsci@ucsd.edu
cpadden@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858.534.6073
Video Phone: 858.768.0471
Research Interests: language, communication and culture, the study of sign language, particularly American Sign Language (ASL).

Mica Pollock (Affiliated)

Contact: micapollock@ucsd.edu

Thomas Schmidt

Assistant Professor in Critical Journalism Studies
858-246-5341
MCC 103
t1schmidt@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: the changing form of news in its social, cultural, technological, economic and political dimensions shaped by both institutional and cultural dynamics, comparative perspectives, historical context and the contemporary evolution of journalistic institutions; cultural history and global dynamics, political culture and technological imagination.

David Serlin

On sabbatical Winter 2021 - Spring 2021
Associate Professor of Communication
Affiliated Faculty in Science Studies, Critical Gender Studies, Urban Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Group in Cognitive Science
Director of the Health Care-Social Issues Interdisciplinary Program
(858) 534-6327
MCC 105
Contact: dserlin@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: Historical and cultural approaches to disability, technology, and the politics of design; architecture, urbanism, and the built environment; material culture and museum studies; scientific and aesthetic histories of the senses, especially tactility and cognition; feminist, crip, and queer theories of embodiment and subjectivity,

Christo Sims

Associate Professor
(858) 246-0739
MCC 207
chsims@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: technology, design, and social practice, social life of sustainable architecture, the place of technology and design in American youth cultures and amongst educational reformers. Studio for Ethnographic Design and the University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design.

Stefan Tanaka

Professor
Director of Undergraduate Affairs
Director, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
(858) 534-3401
MCC 244
stanaka@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: modern Japanese history, ways that history, pasts, and time were configured to define Japan's world and itself, history as a technology of communication, the Digital Humanities.

Lillian Walkover

Assistant Teaching Professor
Global Health Program (joint appointment)
Phone and Office TBD
lwalkover@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: production and movement of global health knowledges, postcolonial science and technology studies, health professions training and migration, qualitative research methods

Elana Zilberg

Associate Professor, Principal Investigator, The University of California Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design (CoLED), Faculty Affiliate: Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, and Ethnic Studies.
(858) 534-2946
MCC 206
ezilberg@ucsd.edu
Research Interests: security, space, and mobility between the United States and Latin America, the production of transnational space through neoliberalism and globalization between immigration, criminal, and antiterrorist law, the production of space and urban built environment, urban nature, infrastructure, and environmental activism.