Shelley Stamp

UC Santa Cruz Presidential Chair, Shelley Stamp, is the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon (a finalist for the Theatre Library Association Book Award) and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood, winner of the Michael Nelson Prize from the International Association for Media and History and the Richard Wall Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association. She curated the 6-disk set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, honored with a Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle. She is also Founding Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal, published quarterly by the University of California Press, and an accompanying book series also published by UC Press. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a University of California President’s Fellowship. Stamp is Professor of Film + Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, where she won the Excellence in Teaching Award. Faculty web pagestamp@ucsc.edu

Jennifer González

Jennifer A. González is Professor in the History of Art & Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and also teaches at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, NY. She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has published in Frieze, Bomb, Diacritics, Camera Obscura, Open Space, Art Journal, and Journal of the Archives of American Art and numerous exhibition catalogs including most recently Jimmy Durham: At the Center of the World (2017). Her first book Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art (MIT Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award. Her second book focused on the MacArthur-award-winning artist Pepón Osorio (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2013). She is chief editor of the forthcoming Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology (Duke Univ Press, 2019). She has lectured extensively at scores of universities and art museums nationally and internationally, including for example the Guggenheim, LACMA, SFMOMA, Smithsonian, Terra Foundation, and Whitney Museum, NY. Faculty web page, jag@ucsc.edu

Neda Atanasoski

Neda Atanasoski is a Professor of Feminist Studies and the Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (Univ of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (co-authored with Kalindi Vora and forthcoming with Duke Univ Press, March 2019). She is also the co-editor of a 2017 special issue of the journal Social Identities, titled “Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution.” Atanasoski has published articles on gender and religion, nationalism and war, human rights and humanitarianism, and race and technology, which have appeared in journals such as American Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Catalyst, and The European Journal of Cultural Studies. She has received numerous fellowships, including the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, and grants from the Center for New Racial Studies, the Hellman Program, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the Luce Foundation initiative on Religion in Diaspora and Global Affairs. Faculty web page, natanaso@ucsc.edu

Yiman Wang

Yiman Wang is Professor of Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz.  She is the author of Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2013).  She is currently completing a monograph on Anna May Wong, the best known early 20th-c. Chinese-American screen-stage performer.  She is co-editor of the newly launched Global East Asian Screen Cultures book series published by Bloomsbury. She has guest-edited a special issue for Feminist Media Histories on Asian feminist media (2019), and has published numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on topics of Chinese cinema studies, independent documentary, star studies, ecocinema, race gender and early cinema, film remakes, and adaptation.  Faculty web page, yw3@ucsc.edu