culturalstudies

Mehdi Semati on Iran, the media, higher education, and his experience of revolution and war

Mehdi Semati on Iran, the media, higher education, and his experience of revolution and war

You can read about his work here:

https://www.niu.edu/clas/comm/contact-us/directory/semati-mehdi.shtml

https://niu.academia.edu/MehdiSemati

 

 

Antonio Lopez on indigenous cosmology, media literacy, the environment, youth activism, and LA punk

Antonio Lopez on US and Italian politics, Native American cosmology, media literacy, the environment, youth activism, and LA punk

You can read about his work here:

https://ecomedialiteracy.org/

https://www.johncabot.edu/faculty/antonio-lopez

MaryEllen Higgins on adoption and reunion, surfing, colonial trauma, justice, and African cinema

MaryEllen Higgins on adoption and reunion, surfing, colonial trauma, justice, reparations, Frantz Fanon, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Judith Lewis Herman, African cinema, Yamina Bachir, Rachida, Judy Kibinge, being a film producer, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Kivu Ruhorahoza, and JM Coetzee 

You can read about her work here:

https://rockethics.psu.edu/people/maryellen-ellie-higgins/

 

Rolien Hoyng on technological breakdown, electronic waste, climate crisis, and the circular economy

Rolien Hoyng on technological breakdown, populism, Istanbul, Hong Kong, electronic waste, climate crisis, quantification, the circular economy, and ecofeminism

You can read about her work here:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/people/rolien-hoyng

Mark Banks on UK politics, cultural industries, labor, justice, the environment, and popular culture

Mark Banks on the British election, creative/cultural industries, labor, justice, the environment, and popular culture

You can read about his work here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/markbanks/#researchinterests,publications

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/09548963.2024.2344468?needAccess=true

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2058059

Kay Dickinson on colonialism, the Arab world, secular cinema, labor, offshore filmmaking, and Abba

Kay Dickinson on colonialism, socialism, the Arab world, secular cinema, labor, tax breaks, offshore filmmaking, and Abba

You can read about Kay’s work here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/kaydickinson/

 

Ingrid Richardson on pets, phenomenology, ethnography, telephony, and collaboration

Ingrid Richardson on air-crash investigation, pets, gaming, phenomenology, ethnography, telephony, collaboration, and artificial intelligence

You can read about Ingrid’s work here:

https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/richardson-professor-ingrid

Fawzia Afzal-Khan on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Palestine, theater, TE Lawrence, and traveling feminism

Fawzia Afzal-Khan on literary studies, activism, colonialism, Pakistan, women’s rights, Afghanistan, Palestine, Susan Sontag, raga, theater, TE Lawrence, and traveling feminism

You can read about her work here:

https://www.fawziaafzalkhan.com/

 

Melani McAlister on the Gaza-Israel-US conflict, evangelical nationalism, Ukraine, queerness, and Weber

Melani McAlister on her new book covering the Gaza-Israel-US conflict, evangelical nationalism, Ukraine, queerness, and Weber

You can read about her work here:

https://melanimcalister.com/

https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/melani-mcalister

Bev Best on teaching, critical theory, Marxism, value, social labor, money, and class struggle

Bev Best on student protest, teaching, critical theory, Marxism, value, fetish, social labor, money, and class struggle

You can read about Beverley’s work here:

https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/beverley-best.html?c=/artsci/cissc/phd-humanities/faculty-profiles

https://explore.concordia.ca/beverley-best

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/best-beverley