Faculty in the Cinema and Digital Media Program are listed here,
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For any anthropologist, fieldwork represents both a professional
obligation and a rite of passage. For Professor Fiamma
Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, the protagonist of
Borges’ El Etnógrafo (1969), this rite of
passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s
traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of
visual art.
M.F.A. University of Southern CaliforniaB.S. Columbia University
Lishan AZ is a multi-disciplinary artist working in
immersive installation, community-based projects, and
photography. Her work explores intimacy, the body, and home as a
contested space. The subjects of her work are historical and
present-day Black women who take up space and speak truth to
power.
Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences, Duke UniversityM.F.A. Digital Media Art, University of Florida, GainsvilleB.E.D. Visualization Science, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joshua McCoy is a game developer, computer scientist and
cross-disciplinary researcher whose work lies at the confluence
of game technology, social science, artificial intelligence and
design. His goal is to create playable experiences that
communicate to broad audiences and critically address the
challenges present in our society while expanding the boundaries
of technology. The most recent products of his research involve
combining artificial intelligence techniques with social science
to create meaningful, responsive and socially engaging game
experiences.
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Toronto 2005M.Sc. Computer Science, University of Toronto 1998B. Engineering and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 1996
Ph.D. The Ohio State UniversityM.A. San Diego State UniversityB.A. California State University San Marcos
Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (she/her) is an Assistant Professor
of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. She received her PhD in
English with a specialization in Film Studies from The Ohio State
University in 2023. Her dissertation, “Social Mediated Latinas:
Creating and Contouring Digital Latina Looks in the
Twenty-First Century,” examines how Latinas utilize their social
media presence to act as both cultural producers of original
content and participants in intracultural discourse related to
ethnoracial identity.
