Community Studies

211 College Eight Academic Building
(831) 459-2371
http://communitystudies.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

William H. Friedland, Emeritus

Nancy Stoller
Race and gender aspects of health, the AIDS epidemic, community organizing, sexualities, and medicine in prisons

David T. Wellman
Working-class culture, American ethnic and racial diversity, social documentary studies, critical race theory, interrogations of whiteness, and qualitative research methods

Carter Wilson, Emeritus

Deborah A. Woo
Asian Americans and social change, glass ceilings and workplace discrimination, Asian American health, and mental health

Associate Professor

David T. Brundage
American working-class and immigration history, history of U.S. social movements, Irish history and politics

Paul Ortiz
African American history, U.S. social and political history, social documentary, oral history, subaltern studies and theories of resistance, U.S. South, Latino studies, social movements, working-class history; history of farm labor, African diaspora

Mary Beth Pudup
Regional studies, economic justice, public policy, historical geography of the U.S.

Renee Tajima-Peña
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change

Assistant Professor

Julie Guthman
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, politics of obesity, political ecology, race and food, critical human geography

Marcia Ochoa
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studies-Colombia and Venezuela, political philosophy, geography

Pamela Perry
Youth activism; racism and anti-racism, whiteness, educational inequalities; ethnographic documentary; racial and ethnic identities; cultural studies

B. Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Lecturer and Field Program Coordinator

Michael Rotkin
Marxist theory, capitalist system, community organizing, electoral politics, media, government programs, community power structure, institutional analysis, and affirmative action

Lecturer

Larry D. Trujillo
Chicana/o studies, ethnic studies, grassroots community organizations, prison-industrial complex, student development, Chicano music

Professor

John G. Borrego (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Global political economy, national development, urban and regional planning, community organizing, social change, ethnic minorities, Mexico and the Southwest

Dana Frank (History)
U.S. social and economic history; women, labor, and working-class history; contemporary political economy

Patricia J. Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Relationship between women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital