[ maberger@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-3193 American studies and visual studies, with interest in painting, photography, early cinema, and literature.
On leave for Fall 2009
Office Location: Porter College, Room 209
Mailing address:
Martin Berger
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Raoul Birnbaum
[ rbirnb@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-4155 Buddhist studies, especially Chinese practices from medieval times to the present; religion and visual culture in China.
On leave for Fall 2009
Office Location: Kresge College, Room 246
Mailing address:
Raoul Birnbaum
University of California, Santa Cruz
Kresge College
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ cmsoussl@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-4660
Director, Focused Research Activity in Performance & Visual Studies.
Core faculty member: Italian Studies, Jewish Studies, and Pre-and Early Modern Studies. Books, articles, and research in the fields of European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; Performance studies; Early Modern Italian art; Media history, including Film; and Jewish identity and representation.
Office Hours: by appointment only
Office Location: Cowell College, Room 203
Mailing address:
Catherine M. Soussloff
University of California, Santa Cruz
Cowell Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture. Visual cultures of Central Africa; issues of gender, post-colonialism and iconoclasm.
On leave for the 2009-2010 Academic Year
Office Location: Porter College, Room 204
Mailing address:
Elisabeth Cameron
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ jag@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-2099 Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, museums and material culture studies, public and activist art in the U.S.
Office Hours: by appointment only
Office Location: Porter College, Room 208
Mailing address:
Jennifer González
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ dhunter@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-4671 European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice; portraiture.
On leave for Fall 2009
Office Location: Kresge College, Room 226
Mailing address:
Donna Hunter
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
[ kamehiro@ucsc.edu ] (831) 459-2085 Visual cultures of the Oceania; (inter)nationalism; culture contact; colonial cultures; gender studies; museums and collecting.
Office Hours: by appointment only
Office Location: Porter College, Room 210
Mailing address:
Stacy Kamehiro
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Assistant Professors
Maria Evangelatou
[ maevang@ucsc.edu ] (831) 502-7161 Medieval visual culture, with emphasis on Byzantium and its periphery; manuscript illumination, Marian cult and iconography; ancient Greek and Roman visual culture; Islamic visual culture; gender studies.
On leave for the 2009-2010 Academic Year
Office Location: Porter College, Room 206
Mailing address:
Maria Evangelatou
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Visual cultures of Southeast Asia and its diaspora: religions and materiality, theory of visual narrative, the politics of cultural translation, (Post) colonial and Cultural Studies. Issues of gender, sexuality, race, and trauma.
Office Hours: by appointment only
Office Location: Porter College, Room 211
Mailing address:
Boreth Ly
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism; visual and cultural studeis; social inequality in space; architectural preservation; history and memory in the built environment; architecture and visual culture in Latin America and Europe with foci on Brazil and Germany.
Office Hours: by appointment only
Office Location: Porter College, Room TBD
Mailing address:
Daniela Sandler
University of California, Santa Cruz
Porter Faculty Services
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
