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.
Email: eve.oishi@cgu.edu; Phone: 909-607-7803; Fax: 909-607-1221
Uta Poiger, Ph.D., Brown University
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and History
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
The Claremont Colleges Field Committee
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.
Mark Allen ~ Pomona :: Art
Isabel Balsiero ~ Harvey Mudd :: Humanities/Social Sciences
Dipannita Basu ~ Pitzer :: Sociology
Janet Farrell Brodie ~ Claremont Graduate University :: History
Tracy Biga MacLean ~ Pitzer :: Media Studies
Jose Calderon ~ Pitzer :: Sociology & Chicano Studies
Mary Coffey ~ Pomona :: Spanish Lit & Culture
Robert Dawidoff ~ Claremont Graduate University :: History
Marianne de Laet ~ Harvey Mudd College :: Anthropology
Judson J. Emerick ~ Pomona :: Art
Lori Anne Ferrell ~ Claremont Graduate University :: History & English
Paul Faulstich ~ Pitzer :: Environmental Studies
Kathleen Fitzpatrick ~ Pomona :: English & Media Studies
Lorn Foster ~ Pomona :: Politics
Jennifer Friedlander ~ Pomona :: Art History & Media Studies
Ken Gonzales-Day ~ Scripps :: Art
Laura Harris ~ Pitzer :: English, World Lit & Black Studies
Kathleen Howe ~ Pomona :: Art & Art History
Phyllis Jackson ~ Pomona :: Art
Alexandra Juhasz ~ Pitzer :: Media Studies
Juliet Koss ~ Scripps :: Art History
Ming-Yuen Ma ~ Pitzer :: Media Studies
Nancy Macko ~ Scripps :: Art
Wendy Martin ~ Claremont Graduate University :: English
Rachel Mayeri ~ Harvey Mudd :: Humanities & Social Sciences
James Morrison ~ Claremont McKenna :: Literature
Gilda Ochoa ~ Pomona :: Sociology & Chicano Studies
David Pagel ~ Claremont Graduate University :: Art
Sheila Pinkel ~ Pomona :: Art
Frances Pohl ~ Pomona :: Art
Lynn Rapaport ~ Pomona :: Sociology
Marc Redfield ~ Claremont Graduate University :: English
Erin Runyon ~ Religious Studies:: Pomona
Paul Saint-Amour ~ Pomona :: English
Marie-Denise Shelton ~ Claremont McKenna :: Modern Languages/French
Claudia Strauss ~ Pitzer :: Anthropology
Alexandra Seung Hye Suh ~ Scripps:: English
Valorie Thomas ~ Pomona :: English
Miguel Tinker-Salas ~ Pomona :: History
Karen J. Torjesen ~ Claremont Graduate University :: Religion
T. Kim-Trang Tran ~ Scripps :: Media Studies
Cheryl Walker ~ Scripps :: English
Margaret Waller ~ Pomona :: Romance Languages & Literature
Meg Worley ~ Pomona :: English
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