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Cultural Studies Faculty
The Cultural Studies Department consists of four core faculty in the department and a large Field Committee. The Core Faculty are responsible for establishing the policies and procedures of the department, and for working closely with Cultural Studies students. The Field Committee is drawn from other graduate faculty at CGU and full-time faculty at the Claremont Colleges, and the School of Theology (CST).
Cultural Studies Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Claremont Graduate University
121 East Tenth Street
Claremont,California 91711
Core Faculty
Patricia Easton, Ph.D. University of Western Ontario
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Interim Department Chair
Professor Easton specializes in the history of modern philosophy, particularly the philosophy of René Descartes and the Cartesians of the seventeenth century. Her interests also include the philosophy of mind, the history of science, and the history of philosophy. Her current research centers on the writings of Robert Desgabets (1610-1678), whose Cartesianism represents an important challenge to traditional conceptions of the Cartesian philosophy. As a recipient of the Borchard Scholar-in-Residency Grant, she spent the fall of 2000 in France working on an extended study of Desgabets's writings. She also directs and is editor of The Descartes Web Site that features seventeenth-century French and English editions of Descartes' work, The Passions of the Soul. Professor Easton served as Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities from 2002-2007. At CGU she teaches courses and seminars in early modern philosophy. She has also taken part in team-teaching transdisciplinary courses at CGU.
Email:patricia.easton@cgu.edu; Phone: 909-607-9440; Fax: 909-607-1221
Marlene Daut, Ph.D Notre Dame
Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies
Marlene L. Daut specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transatlantic, Afro-diasporic, and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Her most recent work examines the relationship between the Haitian Revolution and scientific theories of race in U.S. American, Haitian, and French colonial literatures.She has been the recipient of an Erskine A. Peters-Reid Dissertation Fellowship and a Ford Dissertation Fellowship. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Small Axe, the South Atlantic Review, and Nineteenth-Century Literature (forthcoming). She also has essays forthcoming in two edited collections, Early America and the Haitian Revolution: Essays on the Cultural History of Atlantic Colonialism and Modernity, eds. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler; and Seduction and Sentiment in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800, eds. Tita Chico and Toni Bowers. Her current book project is entitled, Science of Desire: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865.
Email: marlene.daut@cgu.edu; Phone: 909-607-7439; Fax: 909-607-7444
Joshua Goode, Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and History
Joshua Goode holds a joint appointment in the Departments of History and Cultural Studies at CGU. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe. His research interests include the political, social and cultural impact of science in 19th and 20th century Europe, European fascism, racial thought, and criminology. He is the author of Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 (LSU Press, 2009). He is also the author of several articles and has recently contributed a chapter on contemporary Spain to the volume, Race, Crime and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives (Palgrave, 2010). His current research focuses on the role that national history and memory play in shaping contemporary European debates about immigration, citizenship, and culture. One particular aspect of this work considers the role that the Holocaust and Spain’s wartime alliances have played in shaping current Spanish attitudes toward ethnic and national identity. Goode has taught courses on comparative history, European racial thought, fascism, genocide, museums and commemoration, the Spanish Civil War, and history and memory in modern Europe.
Email: joshua.goode@cgu.edu; Phone: 909-607-7430; Fax: 909-607-1221
Henry Krips, Ph.D., University of Adelaide
Professor of Cultural Studies (on leave Fall 2009)
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 has 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: 909-607-7444
Eve Oishi, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies (on leave Fall 2009)
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: 909-607-7587; Fax: 909-607-7444
Associate Faculty
 Linda M. Perkins, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne), is an associate professor in the Cultural Studies department and is co-chair for the Africana Studies Certificate program. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies and History. 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. She has served as Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and has also served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA. She is currently on the editorial boards of the History of Education Quarterly and the Review of African American Education. 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). Professor Perkins was on the National Planning Committee for the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Brown v. Board of Education at New York University and taught a course on Brown in Fall of 2004. She hosted a national research conference in February 2008 on the impact of the Brown decision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act on Black higher education.
Email: linda.perkins@cgu.edu ; Phone: 909-607-7964; Fax: 909-607-1221
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. Here is a list of appointed faculty who have actively worked with our students:
- 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
- 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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