Tuesdays 3:30-4:30, Thursdays 2:00-4:00; and by appointment
Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
1983 - Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz 1975 - M.A., Washington State University 1972 - B.S., Florida A & M University
Herman Gray is professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and has published widely in the areas of black cultural theory, politics, and media. Gray is the author of Watching Race (Minnesota) and Cultural Moves and he co-edited Towards a Sociology of the Trace with Macarena Gomez Barris (Minnesota). Most recently, he co-edited The Sage Handbook of Television with Manuel Alvarado, Milly Buoanno and Toby Miller.
Media, Race, Television Studies, Cultural Politics, Jazz Studies
Awards
2002. John Segenthaler Chair of Excellence, Presented by Tennessee State University’s School of Communication.
2002. Resident Scholar at the University of California Irvine’s Humanities Research Institute.
1997. Resident Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy.
Public Lecture or Forum Participation
2014. "The Culture of Work, Cultural Work: Changing Conceptions of Work,” for the UC Humanities Research Institute in Mexico City, Mexico. INVITED
2014. Co-Convener for the Annenberg Summer Institute for Diversity and Media at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. INVITED
2013. Panel Discussion: Reflections on "The Stuart Hall Project" at the University of California – Santa Cruz. INVITED
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
2014. "Creative Industries, Marketing Diversity and Managing Difference," presented at the Trajectories and Local Logics of Screen Media Labor Society for Cinema and Media Studies in Seattle. PEER REVIEWED/INVITED
2013. Chair, Comment of the Sonic Ledgers of Dissent Panel at the American Studies Association in Washington, D.C. INVITED
2012. "The Politics of Representation: Should the Politics of Representation be History,” Presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Boston. PEER REVIEWED/INVITED
2009. "Critical Comment: Tongues Untied," in Bent Light: A History of the Avante Garde Moving Image in the Bay Area, 1945-2000. Edited by S. Anker, K. Gertiz, and S. Seid. University of Berkeley Press.
