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 Tenth Street

Claremont, California 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

 

 

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 fall of 2009.

 

 

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). 

 

 

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
  • 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

 

 

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.