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Speaker
Biographies
Rupe Conference on Media
Ownership: Research and Regulation
Saturday May 21, 9:00-5:30 pm,
Victoria Hall Theatre, Santa Barbara
Ann
Louise Bardach is the author of Cuba Confidential:
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, a finalist for
the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for
Excellence in Journalism and the PEN USA Award for Best
Nonfiction, and named one of Ten Best Books of 2002
by the Los Angeles Times. She is the editor of Cuba:
A Traveler’s Literary Companion. She won the PEN
USA Award for Journalism in 1994 for her reporting on
Mexican politics, and was a finalist in 1993 for her
coverage of women in Islamic countries.
Denise D.
Bielby is Professor of Sociology and Affiliated
Faculty, Center for Film, Television, and New Media
at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her
current research focuses on the global market for television.
Her scholarly publications on the television and film
industries have appeared in journals that include American
Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review,
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Gender
& Society, Journal of Poplar Culture, American Behavioral
Scientist, and Work and Organizations. She is co-author,
with C. Lee Harrington, of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure
and Making Meaning in Everyday Life (1995), and Popular
Culture: Production and Consumption (2001). Professor
Bielby is co-recipient of two national awards for her
research, the Ruben Hill Research and Theory Award from
the National Council on Family Relations, and the Kathleen
Gregory Klein Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies
from the Popular and American Culture Associations.
Her research has been funded by the National Science
Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Michael
Epstein (JD, Columbia University; Ph.D., University
of Michigan) is a Professor of Law at Southwestern University
School of Law. While in law school, he served as Book
Review editor of Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Later,
he received a Public Interest Law Foundation Fellowship
and served an internship at the Media Access Project
in Washington,D.C. He worked in one law firm as an associate
focusing on media mergers and acquisitions, bank refinancing,
leveraged leasing and alternative energy projects, and
a second firm in the areas of bankruptcy, corporate
and real estate law and lobbying efforts before Congress
and federal agencies on behalf of clients. Professor
Epstein returned to academia to earn his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees, and taught courses such as Communication, American
Culture, media law and theory, communication and society,
at Michigan and at Syracuse University’s S.I.
Newhouse School of Public Communications. He serves
as a faculty advisor to the Media Law Forum and the
Entertainment & Sports Law Society and assists students
in arranging entertainment law externships. He is the
author of numerous articles, most recently on copyright
law and regulating converging industries.
Kenneth
Harwood (PhD, USC) writes on media ethics. He
studies media economics, including economics of the
Web, motion pictures, video, audio, newspapers, and
books, and the history of media awards such as the Emmy
in television. He suggests economic theory to support
further funding of public television in the United States.
Dr. Harwood was professor Communication at University
of Alabama, University of Southern California, Temple
University, and UCSB. He was President of the International
Communication Association, President of the Broadcast
Education Association, and Director of the National
Association of Broadcasters. His awards include Distinguished
Education Service Award, Broadcast Education Association,
1986, and Frank Stanton Fellow, International Television
and Radio Society, 1979.
Jennifer Holt
(PhD, UCLA) is a visiting Assistant Professor at the
University of Southern California in the School of Cinema-Television
and has also taught at UCLA and UC-Santa Barbara. She
teaches critical media studies and specializes in the
political economy and industrial history of American
film and television. Her current research looks at the
effects of deregulation and current policy on the industrial
structure and entertainment products of today's global
media conglomerates. She has published articles in various
journals and anthologies including Film Quarterly, Film
& History, Quality Popular Television and the forthcoming
series Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema.
Presently, she is finishing a manuscript entitled In
Deregulation We Trust: The Business of Entertainment
in the New Hollywood.
Leah
A. Lievrouw (Ph.D., USC), is a Professor in the
Department of Information Studies, Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies, at the University
of California, Los Angeles. Her research and writing
focus on the social and cultural changes associated
with information and communication technologies and
the relationship between new technologies and knowledge.
Dr. Lievrouw is co-editor (with Sonia Livingstone of
the London School of Economics) of The Handbook of New
Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs (Sage
Publications, London, 2002). Her other books include
Mediation, Information and Communication: Information
and Behavior, vol. 3 (co-edited with Brent Ruben, Transaction,
1990) and Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social
Aspects of the Information Society (co-edited with Jorge
Reina Schement, Ablex, 1987). She is also an editor
of the journal New Media & Society, published by
Sage London.
David
Marshall (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins,1979) is Professor
of English, and Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts, in the
College of Letters & Sciences at UCSB. He served
on the faculty at Yale University for 18 years as a
professor of English and Comparative Literature, Chair
of the Department of English, Director of The Literature
Major, and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center,
among other administrative positions. His honors include
a Guggenheim Fellowship and Yale's Morse Fellowship.
Marshall taught at Northwestern University in 1997-1998.
He is the author of The Surprising Effects of Sympathy:
Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (1988)
and The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam
Smith, and George Eliot (1986). He is currently working
on Representation Compulsions, a study of the problematic
status of art in eighteenth-century fiction and aesthetics.
Molly
Moloney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department
of Sociology atUCSB. She studies cultural sociology,
media culture, gender, and technology. Her dissertation
research analyzes struggles over the future of television
vis-à-vis digital technologies, including debates
about and transformations in conceptualizations of property,
ownership, and audiences. Her previous work includes
the chapters “Aesthetics of Television Criticism:
Mapping Critics' Reviews in an Era of Industry Transformation”
(2005), and “Performance and Accomplishment: Reconciling
Feminist Conceptions of Gender” (2002).
Miriam Metzger (Ph.D.,
USC) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communcation,
and Associate Director of the Center for Film, Television
and New Media, at UCSB. She is interested in the social
uses and effects of both traditional and newer computer-based
media forms. Her research includes studies of the credibility
of information in the new media environment, problems
of online privacy and security, and the impact of news
and political communication on public opinion, and the
theoretical and regulatory changes brought about by
the development of new media technologies.
Philip M.
Napoli (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is the
Director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research
Center, and an Associate Professor of Communications
and Media Management in the Graduate School of Business,
Fordham University. He is the author of Audience Economics:
Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (Columbia
University Press, 2003) and Foundations of Communications
Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of
Electronic Media (Hampton Press, 2001). Professor Napoli
is also the author of over 20 articles and book chapters
that focus on media policy and media institutions. He
has testified before Congress on the issue of media
ownership and has spoken before the Federal Communications
Commission on media policy issues on multiple occasions.
He has been interviewed on media policy issues in publications
such as the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and
the Christian Science Monitor. His research has been
funded by organizations such as the Ford Foundation,
the Benton Foundation, the National Association of Broadcasters,
and the National Association of Television Programming
Executives.
Eli Noam
(Ph.D., Harvard) has been Professor of Economics and
Finance at the Columbia University Business School since
1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as
Commissioner with the New York State Public Service
Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director
of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, is a
university-based research center focusing on strategy,
management, and policy issues in telecommunications,
computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to
leading CITI's research activities, Noam initiated the
MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications,
and Information at the Business School and the Virtual
Institute of Information, an independent, web-based
research facility. Besides the over 400 articles in
economics, legal, communications, and other journals
that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as
communications, information, public choice, public finance,
and general regulation, he has also authored, edited,
and co-edited about 25 books. The most recent include:
Interconnecting the Network of Networks (2001); Internet
Television (2004); Competition for the Mobile Internet
(2004); Mobile Media Content and Services for Wireless
Communications (2005); and Media Ownership and Concentration
in America (2005).
Melvin Oliver
(Ph.D., Washington, University) is Professor of Sociology,
and the Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Letters
& Sciences at UCSB. His teaching areas and research
interests include poverty; inequality & social policy;
urban; race & interethnic relations. Prior to coming
to UC Santa Barbara he was Vice President of the Asset
Building and Community Development Program at the Ford
Foundation. This program helped to build human, social,
economic, environmental, and interpersonal assets among
poor and disadvantaged individuals and communities throughout
the world. From 1978 to 1996 he was a member of the
faculty at UCLA. A popular and effective instructor,
he has won numerous awards for teaching. In 1994, he
was named the California Professor of the Year and won
the Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching
award from the UCLA Alumni Association. Two of his books
include Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles
(2000) and Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective
on Racial Inequality (1997).
Constance Penley (Ph.D,
UC Berkeley) is Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Co-Director
of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at
UCSB. Her major areas of research interest are film
history and theory, feminist theory, cultural studies,
contemporary art, and science and technology studies.
She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura: Feminism,
Media, Cultural Studies. Her most recent work includes
NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America and The
Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Science and Gender
(ed. with Treichler and Cartwright). Her collaborative
art projects include "MELROSE SPACE: Primetime
Art by the GALA Committee" and "Biospheria:
An Environmental Opera," on which she was co-librettist.
Sarah
M. Pritchard (MA and MLS, University
of Wisconsin-Madison) became the University Librarian
at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999.
Before coming to UCSB, she was the Director of Libraries
at Smith College, and had previously worked at the Library
of Congress, and the Association of Research Libraries.
She's active in major initiatives of the Association
of Research Libraries, the Coalition for Networked Information,
and the University of California library system. In
the American Library Association she has held numerous
positions; she currently chairs the Committee on Professional
Ethics, and has just completed three terms on the ALA
Council. In California she is a gubernatorial appointee
to the state board of the Library of California multitype
cooperative network. In 2001, she was selected by the
Association of College and Research Libraries to receive
the Career Achievement Award in Women's Studies Librarianship.
She has served on several grant and editorial review
panels and is the author of over 70 articles and reviews
on library management, information technology, women's
studies librarianship, and consortial library projects.
At UCSB, she oversees a staff of 175 and acquisitions
of print and electronic resources costing over $6 million
annually from publishers and other providers all over
the world.
Ronald E.
Rice (Ph.D., Stanford) is the Arthur N. Rupe
Chair in the Department of Communication, and Co-Director
of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at
UCSB. He has co-authored or co-edited Social Consequences
of Internet Use (2002), The Internet and Health Communication
(2001); Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication
(2001); Public Communication Campaigns (3 editions);
Research Methods and the New Media (1988); Managing
Organizational Innovation (1987); and The New Media:
Communication, Research and Technology (1984).
William
B. Warner (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is
Professor of English, and Director of the University
of California Digital Cultures Project, at UCSB. Dr.
Warner conducts research on the Enlightenment, the novel,
the history of media culture from the eighteenth century
to the present, and free speech and censorship. His
books include Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation
of Novel Reading, 1684-1750 (1998), Chance and the Text
of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, and Shakespeare’s
Hamlet (1986), Cultural Institutions of the Novel (edited,
1996), and Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation
(1979). His current research project is focused on Early
American networks. It is part of a book project entitled,
American Networks: From the Continental Congress to
the Internet.
Diane E.
Watson (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) is
Congresswoman from the 33rd California Congressional
District. Her lifetime commitment to education stems
from her involvement in the Los Angeles public schools
where she worked as an elementary school teacher and
school psychologist. She has lectured at both California
State Universities at Los Angeles and Long Beach. During
her tenure in the California State Senate, Congresswoman
Watson became a statewide and national advocate for
health care, consumer protection, women, and children.
In 1993, she authored the California Birth Defects Monitoring
Program Act, which led to pioneering research into the
causes of birth defects, and the Residential Care Facilities
Act, to ensure that senior citizens receive quality
care in nursing and assisted living homes. In 1997,
she introduced legislation to toughen food health safety
requirements for restaurants. In 1998, Congresswoman
Watson served as the United States Ambassador to the
Federated States of Micronesia until 2001 when she was
sworn in as a Member of Congress after the death of
Congressman Julian Dixon, who held the seat for 22 years.
In January 2003, Congresswoman Watson was sworn in as
a member of the 108th Congress.
Henry T. Yang
(Ph.D.) was named UCSB's fifth chancellor in 1994. He
was formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor
of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue
University, where he also served as the dean of engineering
for ten years. Dr. Yang is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received
many awards and honors for his research, teaching, and
service, including two honorary doctorates and the Benjamin
Garver Lamme gold medal, the highest honor from the
American Society of Engineering Education. Dr. Yang
specializes in aerospace structures, structural dynamics,
composite materials, finite elements, transonic aeroelasticity,
wind and earthquake structural engineering, and manufacturing.
He has authored or co-authored more than 160 articles
for scientific journals, as well as a widely used textbook
on finite element structural analysis. He and his wife,
Dilling, live on campus. Dilling volunteers her time
to the university and, like other spouses of UC chancellors,
holds the UCOP-appointed title of Associate of the Chancellor.
In 2001, Henry and Dilling Yang were named honorary
alumni of UCSB.
And with superb assistance
from:
Sarah Bequette is a 2003
graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Political
Science and a minor in History. In addition to serving
as the Administrative Assistant for the Center for Film,
Television and New Media, Bequette operates as the Events
Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
She is Administrator of the UCSB Media Internship Program,
a curriculum aimed at placing students from various
departments in internships with top entertainment companies.
Matthew Harnack is a recent
graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Film and Media Studies.
Serving as Campus Representative for Apple Computer,
Inc. Harnack taught students to use a variety of digital
media applications. As a student he focused on new media
and digital post-production. Presently, he shares his
time as the Senior Artist for both the Center for Film,
Television and New Media and the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center. Harnack is excited to innovate and maintain
visual media for the CFTMN.
Nicole Klanfer is Assistant
Dean of Development, Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB,
and a tireless promoter, supporter, and coordinator
for the Center.
Elizabeth Fisk
is Business Officer, and Faye
Nennig is Financial Assistant, of the Department
of Communication, UCSB, and they helped organize and
coordinate many of the local aspects of this conference.
And financial support from:
- The Critical Issues in America Endowment,
College of Letters & Sciences
- The Arthur N. Rupe Endowed Chair in
the Social Effects of Mass Communication
- The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
- The Film and Media Studies Department
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