Experts Directory: Popular Culture
Bernardo Attias
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-6895 / 2853
email: Bernardo.attias@csun.edu
- War on terrorism
- Media studies
- Rhetorical studies
- Political campaigns
- Freedom of speech
- Technology
- Crime and punishment
- Drug war
- Peace and conflict
- History of sexuality
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Elizabeth Blakey
Department of Journalism
work: (818) 677-3144
email:听elizabeth.blakey@csun.edu
- First Amendment
- Civil liberties
- Social movements
- Media law
- Copyright
- Libel
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Mauro Carassai
Liberal Studies Program
work: (818) 677-3343
email:听mauro.carassai@csun.edu
Also speaks: Italian
- Digital humanities
- Criticism and theory
- American studies
- Contemporary American literature
- Popular culture
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Marquita Gammage
Department of听Africana Studies
work: (818) 677-3112
email:听marquita.gammage@csun.edu
- African-American sociology
- Africana womanhood
- Popular culture
- Black women in the media
- Black women's health and wellness
- Author: "Representations of Black Women in the Media: The Damnation of Black Womanhood"
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Peter J. Garcia
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-3491
email:听peter.garcia@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Latin American ethnomusicology
- Southwest borderlands culture
- Chicana/o folklore
- Member of the advisory board of the Encyclopedia of Latina/o Folklore
- Author: 鈥淒ecolonizing Enchantment: Echoes of Nuevo Mexicano Popular Musics鈥�
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Ellis Godard
Department of Sociology听
work: (818) 677-4050
email:听egodard@csun.edu
- Statistical, survey and applied methods
- Crime
- Law
- Deviancy
- Social control
- Media
- Social movements and cyberspace
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Steve Graves
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3517
email:听steve.graves@csun.edu
- Popular culture
- Predatory lending
- Social justice
- Landscapes
- Geography education
- Author: 鈥淟andscapes of Predation, Landscapes of Neglect: An Analysis of Banks and Payday Lenders鈥�
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John Kephart III
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-3043
email:听john.iii@csun.edu
- Gender and media
- Pop culture and identity
- Political debates and campaigns
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Jinah Kim
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email:听jinah.kim@csun.edu
- Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
- Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
- Issues听impacting undocumented Asian populations
- Author:听鈥淧ostcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas鈥�
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Sheena Malhotra
Associate Dean, College of Humanities
work: (818) 677-7217
email:听sheena.malhotra@csun.edu
Also speaks: Hindi
- Film and television in India and the Indian diaspora
- Gender and sexuality in popular culture
- Intercultural communication
- Bollywood
- Call center in India
- Co-author: "Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Center"
- Co-editor: "Silence and Power: Feminist Reflection at the Edge of Sound"
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Peter J. Marston
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2797 / 2853
email:听peter.marston@csun.edu
- The experience and communication of romantic love
- Cultural study of media communication
- Political arguments and debate
- Popular music criticism
- Popular culture censorship
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Dave Moon
Department of Art
work: (818) 677-3022
email:听dave.y.moon@csun.edu
Also speaks: Korean
- Advertising
- Graphic design
- Print production
- Role of business in art
- Technology in art
- Art and entertainment
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Kathryn Sorrells
Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-2853
email:听kathryn.sorrells@csun.edu
- Intercultural communication
- Intercultural conflict
- Gender, race, class and sexuality
- Feminism
- Globalization
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Maria Mami Turnmeyer
Department of Asian American Studies
work: (818) 677-4966
email:听mariaturnmeyer@yahoo.com
- Asian American literature and poetry
- Postmodern and post-colonial literature
- Popular culture and the Asian American experience
- Creating writing workshops
- Diversity projects
- Asian American performance art and drama
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Melissa Wall
Department of Journalism
work: (818) 677-5677
email:听Melissa.a.wall@csun.edu
- International news
- African media
- Citizen media
- Progressive social movements and the media
- Alternative media
- Blogs
- War news
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Veda E. Ward
Department of Recreation and Tourism Management
work: (818) 677-3202
email:听veda.ward@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish
- Parks, recreation and tourism curriculum development, assessment and national accreditation
- Women, leisure and family鈥攚ork life balance
- Community development鈥攏ew urbanism, facilities, open space, human potential
- Leisure and spirituality
- Leisure and aging鈥攏utrition, exercise and personal development
- Parks and recreation鈥攕tatewide master plans
- Recruiting minorities into the parks and recreation profession