Cultural Studies Faculty

The Cultural Studies Department consists of faculty in the department, a small Steering Committee and a large Field Committee.  The Steering Committee consists of faculty drawn from The Claremont Colleges. This committee is responsible for establishing the policies and procedures of the department, and its members work closely with Cultural Studies students. The Field Committee consists of faculty from CGU, the Claremont School of Theology (CST) and the other Claremont Colleges who regularly work with Cultural Studies students.

Cultural Studies Department, School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University, 121 East 10th Street, Claremont, CA 91711

Core Faculty

Henry Krips, Ph.D., University of Adelaide
Professor of Cultural Studies and Department Chair

Henry Krips, Ph.D., is Professor of Cultural Studies and Andrew W. Mellon all Claremont Chair of Humanities at Claremont Graduate University. He specializes in Contemporary European Cultural Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Science Studies – especially the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek. Currently he is working on a book that explores theoretical possibilities for a cultural politics.  His publications include Fetish: An Erotics of Culture (Cornell University Press, 1999), Der Andere Schauplatz: Psychoanalyse, Kultur, Medien (Turia Kant, Vienna, 2001), Science, Reason and Rhetoric (Pittsburgh University Press, 1995), and The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987).  He has held the Silverman visiting chair for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the University of Tel Aviv, and been a Senior Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, the Hungarian Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest, and the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna. He is on the board of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and chairs the division for Theories of Culture in the American Cultural Studies Association. 

Email: henry.krips@cgu.edu; Phone: 909-607-7803; Fax: 909-607-1221 

Eve Oishi, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies

Eve Oishi specializes in Asian American, experimental and queer literature, film and media studies. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the Race and Independent Media Project at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and was a fellow-in-residence at the Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine for the fall 2006 semester. Her book, The Memory Village: Fakeness and the Forging of Family in Asian American Literature and Film, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.  She has published articles on Asian American media practice, feminist film theory, film history, and Asian American literature. Her current research project is on transnational media practice in the Asian diaspora. She is also an independent film and video curator.

Dr. Poiger, arriving at CGU in July 2008, will have a joint appointment in the departments of Cultural Studies and History.  An expert in European Studies, her current projects include a book titled: Beauty and Business in Germany: An International History; a contributor to the forthcoming anthology: Modern Girl Around the World; and as co-editor, with Volker Berghahn, of a web-based project on Documents in German History, Volume 9, 1945-1961.  She has previously published Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany; and was an editor for Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan.  Her interests include the role of museums in social memory.

TBA

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and English

The School of Arts and Humanities is in the process of hiring an assistant professor, with a joint appointment in the departments of Cultural Studies and English, who will arrive in the summer of 2008.

Associate Faculty

Linda M. Perkins, Ph.D. (University of Illinois), is an associate professor in the Cultural Studies department and is co-chair for the Africana Studies Certificate program. She also holds an interdisciplinary university appointment as Chair of the Applied Women's Studies Department and as Associate Professor in Educational Studies and in History.  Dr. Perkins is a historian of women's and African American higher education.  Her primary areas of research are on the history of African American women's higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions and the history of talent identification programs for African Americans students. Her publications include Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1837-1902  (1987) and The African American Female Elite: The Early History of African American Women in the Seven Sister Colleges, 1880-1960 in the Harvard Educational Review (Winter 1997). 

Steering Committee

The Cultural Studies Steering Committee currently consists of these faculty and additional faculty drawn from the Claremont Colleges. This committee is responsible for establishing the policies and procedures of the department, and its members work closely with Cultural Studies students.

Oona Eisenstadt, Ph.D. (McMaster University);
Pomona College: Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
oona.eisenstadt@pomona.edu

Roland Faber, Ph.D. (University of Vienna);
Claremont School of Theology: Process Theology
rfaber@cst.edu  909.447.2541

Paul Faulstich, Ph.D. (University of Hawaii);
Pitzer College: Environmental Studies
paul_faulstich@pitzer.edu  909.621.8818

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. (New York University);
Pomona College: English and Media Studies
kathleen_fitzpatrick@pomona.edu  909.607.1496

Jennifer Friedlander, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh);
Pomona College: Art History & Media Studies
jennifer.friedlander@pomona.edu 909.607.9196

Juliet Koss, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology);
Scripps College: Art History
- On leave 2007-08
juliet.koss@scrippscollege.edu  909.607.8997

Marianne de Laet, Ph.D. (University of Utrecht);
Harvey Mudd College: Anthropology
delaet@hmc.edu

Gilda Ochoa, Ph.D. (University of California);
Pomona College: Sociology and Chicana/o Studies
gochoa@pomona.edu  909.607.4026

Alexandra Seung Hye Suh, Ph.D. (Columbia University);
Scripps College: English
ssuh@scrippscollege.edu  909.607.4026

Valorie Thomas, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley);
Pomona College: English and Inter-Departmental Black Studies
valorie_thomas@pomona.edu  909.607.9242

Kyla Tompkins, Ph.D. (Stanford University);
Pomona College: English
- On leave 2007-08
kyla_tompkins@pomona.edu  909.607.2817

Gary Wilder, Ph.D. (University of Chicago);
Pomona College: History
- On leave 2007-08
gmw04747@pomona.edu  909.621.8990

Students in the Cultural Studies Program may work with members of the humanities and social science faculty at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, Scripps College, and the Claremont School of Theology.