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Reconstructing a global spiderweb with the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (Website)
2008
Research interests: Intersection of music and political life, social movements, state oppression, and diaspora, with a particular interest in the Basque Country
Joor Baruah is an audiovisual artist interested in using documentary + idoc, photography, music and new media forms for social change.
Research Interests: Responses to the current racial justice movement in evangelical churches; settler colonialism in the U.S. context; representations of aid workers and populations served by the humanitarian industry and the formation and performance of humanitarian identity; COVID-19; experiences of race- and gender-based disparities in healthcare; the rural American experience; and determinants of audience attitude and behavior change related to encounters with documentary media.
Research Interests: Child Welfare - particularly the psychological ramifications of trauma; Social Justice - immigration and refugee rights; Auteur and Schreiber Theory - pertaining to its application in documentary filmmaking; Latinx Diaspora; Surveillance and Genocide Studies; End-of-life Rights; and unique stories that pertain to the human condition.
expressions of environmentalism, extinction, ethics of environmental policies, fisheries, "bush radio" in Alaska
Research Interests: Observational documentary, the film essay, autobiographic and experimental nonfiction; american carcerality and abolition/transformative justice; panasian diasporic communities, and queer-of-color feminisms.
Lareau’s research interests include racial justice, allyship, and the legacy and processes of segregation and gentrification.
Decolonial feminist theory, indigenous political movements, preservation of traditional healing practices in the Americas, food justice and land sovereignty in the Americas, Peruvian Diaspora, queer theory, feminist film theory, Latin American studies, and labor studies.
Research Interests: critical race and ethnic studies; visual anthropology; agro-ecology; landscape; diaspora; urban studies; social movements; feminisms
Ethnographic photography essay exploring the cultural landscape of Virginia City, Nevada, the silver-mining boomtown home to the Comstock Lode of 1859. Through analogue photography, sound montage and ethnographic text, Loomis is interested in exploring how Virginia City culturally interacts with its built and natural landscapes and how those landscapes interrelate with the identities of Virginia City.
Environmental, economic, and military injustice in Latin America
Haunting Presences (Video)
2007
Research Interests: Multimedia projects that examine the complex relationships communities have to their physical and social environments
Finding D-QU: The Lonely Struggle of California's Only Tribal College (Video)
2009
Gender and sexuality in the modern U.S. Military
Imminent Threats: Gendered Bodies in the Military (Creative Non-Fiction)
2007
Using participatory methods to tell stories of people who don't traditionally have the agency to author their own stories is the guiding force in his life. The reason he became an educator is the reason he became a filmmaker.
F*t, H*iry, Di*abled: Resistance, Reclamation, and the Possibility of Bodies (Audio)
2009
Research Interests Identity Development and Agency - particularly in the context of immigration Space and Place - the social and political implications of space, gentrification Cultural Narratives - the selling of the "American Dream" and its impact on segments of the American population and immigrant communities) Teaching and Learning - the intersection of design and pedagogy, access to education
Lara lives and works in Beirut, she is currently enrolled in an MFA in Social Documentation at UCSC. She graduated with distinction from an MBA in Art Management (2016) from IESA in Paris, France, and a BA from the Department of Fine Arts and Art History (2013) from the AUB, Lebanon. She was the Program Coordinator of the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Lebanon from 2016-2020.
Documentary and Video Art; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Cinema Studies; Hong Kong Studies
Social movements, prison abolition, decolonization, immigrant rights, criminalization, carceral politics, state violence, black and brown self-determination, latinidad, youth movements, popular pedagogy
Research Interests: Refugees, Roma, human rights, sex trafficking, and immigration.
2022
Neither Lost nor Found : Working Class visibility through the lens of the corner store (Phtography)
2008
Multimedia communications, social movements, social justice. Music and cinema, popular culture and Latin American folklore.
Children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States and their struggle to feel as if they "belong" in the US.