CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Professor Ross
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Professor Stacey

The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) explores the range of relationships between human collectivities, on the one hand, and institutions and structures of power, on the other, taking into account how these are affected by such modern global developments as intensified urbanization, increased transnational exchange, and proliferating diasporic populations.

Because these matters are highly complex, SCA combines research methods from the social sciences and the humanities, and examines such varied phenomena as consumer culture, industrial activity, mass media representations, artistic productions, subcultural practices, and aspects of everyday life in their economic, material, political, and historical contexts. At the same time, it typically focuses its analyses through attention to the city in general and New York in particular, in order to situate the region—and the nation—amid the conditions and processes affecting the entire globe.

Study in SCA thus provides excellent background for careers in such fields as community organizing, legal advocacy, nonprofit administration, public policy, and urban and regional planning, among many others. SCA students select specific courses of study from among the several majors and minors currently offered in the department (with more to come after 2005-2006). These include majors and minors in Africana Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Metropolitan Studies; and minors in American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, and Latino Studies. See the Bulletin entries for these individual programs for detailed information.

Faculty

Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature:
Harper

Silver Professor; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese:
Pratt

Professors:
Dash, Dávila, Dinshaw, Duggan, W. Johnson, Kulick, Miller, Molotch, Rosaldo, Ross, Stacey, Walkowitz, Yúdice

Associate Professors:
Blake, Brenner, Green, Guerrero, Muñoz, Shimakawa, Tchen

Assistant Professors:
Parikh, Sandhu, Siu, Zaloom

Clinical Associate Professor:
Hinton

Assistant Professors/Faculty Fellows:

Rademacher, Shah