Soc Doc Faculty

Lawrence Andrews
Associate Professor
Film and video production, installation and media art.
Sharon Daniel
Professor
Participatory Culture, Technology and Social Inclusion, Public Art.
Anna Friz
Assistant Professor
Sound studies and production, radio and transmission art, media history, media ecologies, media art installation and performance, environmental art, methodologies for research...
Irene Gustafson
Associate Professor
Documentary production, history and theory; Experimental Film; Queer Studies
Eli Hollander
Professor
Film and video directing, editing, cinematography, videography, digital image generation and screenwriting.
Jennifer Horne
Assistant Professor
Media citizenship; non-theatrical film and film exhibition; archives and technologies of information; film preservation; mass media and humanitarianism; cinema and media history...
Jonathan Kahana
Professor
Documentary film and media; film and politics; American film history; essay film; cultural and social theory; media publics; arts of historical reenactment; war and cultural...
L.S. Kim
Associate Professor
Television history and theory, racial discourse, feminist criticism, Asian American media production, industrial practices and social change in both mainstream Hollywood and...
John Jota LeaƱos
Professor
Social Documentation, Documentary Animation, Chicana/o Studies and Popular Culture, Digital Media Theory and Practice, Community Art and Social Practice.
Peter Limbrick
Associate Professor
Arab and Middle Eastern Cinemas; Postcolonial and transnational cinemas; settler colonialism; queer theory; race, gender, sexuality.
Chip Lord
Professor
Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production.
Irene Lusztig
Professor
Megan Moodie
Associate Professor
Margaret Morse
Professor
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary and science fiction.
Soraya Murray
Associate Professor
Visual culture including art, film, video, and electronic games. Intersectional approaches to race, nation gender, and sexuality in visual representation.
Marcia Ochoa
Associate Professor
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, geography, multimedia production, graphic...
Rick Prelinger
Professor
Critical archival studies; personal and institutional recordkeeping; access to the cultural record; media and social change; ephemeral cinema; amateur and home movies;...
B. Ruby Rich
Professor
Documentary film and video, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latino/a cinema, American independent film, the essay film, the politics of film festivals...
Susana Ruiz
Assistant Professor
Game design; games as forms of activism and art; animation; participatory culture; social art practice; non-fiction storytelling; theory/practice hybridity; Theatre of the...
Warren Sack
Professor
Theory and practice of digital media. Software design and media theory.
Shelley Stamp
Professor
Silent Cinema, Female Filmmakers, Film Censorship, Histories of Moviegoing, Early Hollywood
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Associate Professor
Documentary film and video, social change, juvenile justice, migration, rural and small town life, Latinx and Latin American communities, education, pop culture, music, religion,...
Gustavo Vazquez
Professor
Film and video production; directing drama, documentary and experimental; cross-cultural experiences in film; film festival curator.
Yiman Wang
Associate Professor
Transnational/trans-regional Chinese cinemas of all periods, Intra-Asian and cross-Pacific film remakes, Pan-East Asian celebrity culture, East Asian cultural studies, and Asian...
Lewis Watts
Professor Emeritus/a
Photography