Constance Penley
Co-Director
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 7 3 9 6
penley@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
Professor Penley's 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.
Cathy Boggs
Associate Director
cboggs@cftnm.ucsb.edu
Cathy Boggs (Ph.D. Communication,
UCSB) was previously Research Communications
Coordinator for UCSB’s Center for Information
Technology and Society (CITS), where she organized
the 2006 Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions. In
addition to teaching appointments in UCSB’s
Department of Communication and UCLA’s
Anderson Graduate School of Business, her prior
experience includes five years in Washington,
DC as a communications policy analyst, conference
organizer and public relations consultant. She
has also consulted on workplace communication
issues for a variety of non-profit, for-profit,
and government organizations. Her main
non-professional claim to fame is as a 5-game
champion on the TV game show Jeopardy! in 1989.
Melvin L. Oliver
Dean of Social Sciences
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 4 3 2 7
moliver@ltsc.ucsb.edu
Melvin Oliver was named Dean of the Division of
Social Sciences at UCSB in 2004. He is also Professor
of Sociology. Professor Oliver brings to bear
over 25 years of experience in both philanthropy
and higher education. 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.
Dr. Oliver earned his B.A. (1972)
at William Penn College and his M.A. and Ph.D.
in sociology at Washington University. Oliver
is an expert on racial and urban inequality and
poverty, and has authored (with Thomas M. Shapiro)
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective
on Racial Inequality, which received the
Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from
the American Sociological Association, the C.
Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study
of Social Problems, and the award for the outstanding
book on the subject of human rights from the Gustavus
Myers Center. In addition, he has co-edited other
books and special journal issues, and is the author
of over 50 scholarly publications.
Phillip Popp
Webmaster
ppopp@cftnm.ucsb.edu
Phillip Popp graduated from the Univerisity of Minnesota with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Previously, he assisted professors to utilize in using digital technology such as digital video/audio and internet applications for educational purposes. Currently, he acts as the webmaster and online technology specialist for the Center for Film, Television, and New Media. Concurrently, he is persuing a M.S. in Multimedia Engineering at UCSB.
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Ronald E. Rice
Co-Director
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 8 6 9 6
rrice@cftnm.ucsb.edu
Ronald Rice (Ph.D., Stanford) is the Arthur N.
Rupe Chair in Social Effects of Mass Communication
in the Department of Communication. He has co-authored
or co-edited Media Ownership (2008);
The Internet and Heal Care (2006); 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). More information is available at Dr.
Rice's website.
David Marshall
Dean of Humanities
and Fine Arts
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 4 3 2 7
dmarshall@ltsc.ucsb.edu
David Marshall was named Dean
of Humanities and Fine Arts in 1998. He is also
Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
Marshall received a bachelor's degree in 1975
from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from Johns Hopkins University in 1979.
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.
Marshall's academic work
focuses on 18th-century fiction and aesthetics.
His numerous publications address moral philosophy,
theories of art, the history of ideas, and
drama, as well as English, French, and German
literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
His latest book, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins
University Press, is about the problem of art
and aesthetic experience in the 18th century.
Nicole Klanfer
Assistant Dean of Development,
Humanities and Fine Arts
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 7 6 8 0
nicole.klanfer@ia.ucsb.edu
As Assistant Dean of Development
for the past seven years, Nicole oversees the
major gift development program for the Division
of Humanities and Fine Arts, including 22 departments
and programs, at UCSB. Nicole also plays a senior
leadership role in managing the Division of Humanities
and Fine Arts and Arts & Lectures professional
development team. Nicole has been in professional
development work for fourteen years, with six
years at United Way.
Natalie Fawcett
Administrative Assistant
( 8 0 5 ) 8 9 3 - 3 1
3 7
fawcett@cftnm.ucsb.edu
Natalie Fawcett is a Ph.D. student in Religious Studies at UCSB. Her focus is on civil religion (power, politics and the role of religion). She received her M.A. from San Francisco State University in Ethnic Studies and her B.S. in Political Science from the University of Utah. She has previous work experience in company operations and event
planning/management and is excited to work on the Center's programs.
Nicole Starosielski
Graduate Research Assistant
nstarosielski@hotmail.com
Nicole Starosielski
is a PhD student in the department
of Film and Media Studies at UCSB.
She is interested in digital media,
media history, environments, perception,
affect and experimental ethnography.
She is also a media artist working
in the integration of theory and production
and in crossdisciplinary endeavors
at the intersection of the humanities,
sciences and arts. She has participated
in the UCSB IGERT program in Interactive
Digital Multimedia as well as the Transliteracies
Project. Recent films
include TechConnect, a mockumentary about
technology and community, and
Bleach, an experimental ethnography on
race, gender and family.
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