Stephen Duncombe
Gallatin School, New York University
715 Broadway , 5th Floor
New York, New York 10003
212.998.7327
stephen.duncombe@nyu.edu

(last update 3/08)

EDUCATION

City University of New York, Graduate Center, M.Phil. 1993, Ph.D. 1996 with Distinction,Program in Sociology.

State University of New York, College at Purchase, B.A. Cum Laude, Sociology, 1988.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Gallatin School, New York University, 2002-present
Assistant Professor, Gallatin School, New York University,1999-2002
Associated Faculty, Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University, 2005-present

Courses taught include: Struggle for the Word: History of Mass Media I, The Image: History of Mass Media II, Digital Revolution: History of Mass Media III, From Citizen to Consumer, Cultural Resistance, Politics of Media: Power, Persuasion, Perception, Politics of Style, The Social Construction of Reality, Walter Lippmann and the Manufacture of Dissent, Antonio Gramsci and the Power of Culture, Democratic Persuasion, Special Topics in Media.

Assistant Professor, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, American Studies/Media & Communications. 1994-1999.

Instructor, New School for Social Research, Master of Arts in Media Studies. 1992-94.

BOOKS

Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, New York: The New Press, 2007.

The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York, with Andrew Mattson, New York: New York University Press, 2006; paperback with a new afterword: New York: Mortalis/Random House, 2007.

Cultural Resistance Reader, editor, London and New York: Verso, 2002.

Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, London and New York: Verso, 1997.

Under Contract:
Radical Dandy: The Curiously Forgotten Political Life of Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.

ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

"I Want to Believe," Afterimage: Journal for Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, in press, July/August 2008

"FDR's Democratic Propaganda," The Nation, special issue on "The New Deal Turns 75," April 7, 2008

"(From) Cultural Resistance to Community Development," Community Development Journal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 42 (4), Fall 2007

"Why Don't Liberals Dream?" political essay in Playboy magazine, November 2007

"Taking Celebrity Seriously," The Nation, October 29, 2007

"Politics Past Reason: Walter Lippmann and the Manufacture of Dissent," Radical Society, v. 32, Summer 2006

with Andrew Mattson, "Armed and Adorable," New York Times, The City, February 12, 2006

"Impossible Dreams," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2005 - January 2006

"Think Different: Lessons for the Left from Madison Avenue,” in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, on-line, v.1 #4, (www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org), Fall 2005

"Tale of Two Cities: Bush in New York" in Anandabazar Patrika, Sunday supplement, September 12, 2004, in Bengali

"Carnivals Against Capitalism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Activism" in Pugwash Mexico Magazine, Vol 1, #1, 2004, in English and Spanish

with Andrew Boyd, "Manufacturing Dissent: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas," in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, v.1 #3, 2004.

"The Poverty of Theory: Anti-Intellectualism and the Value of Action" in Radical Society, v.30, #1, 2003

“Reclaim the Suits” in Other Magazine, #1, June 2003

"What's Alternative?" in Passages/Passagen, Zurich, Winter 2002, in English, French and German.

"Talking Music and Politics," edited roundtable discussion, The Activist, Winter 2000

"D.I.Y. Nike Style," in Z Magazine, December 1999.

"The Penalty of Leadership: Cadillac and Class Consciousness" in The Baffler, #12, 1999.

"Not Included, Assembly Required: Anti-Identity Politics in American Punk Rock" in Request, web magazine (www.requestline.com), October, 1998.

"Henry Ford Aside, History Isn't Bunk," Op-Ed in New York Newsday, May 20, 1998.

"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" in The Baffler, #10, 1997.

"Quality of Whose Life?" in The Baffler, #7, 1995.

"You Say You Want a Generation," in Dollars and Sense, #197, January/February, 1995.

"I've Seen the Future and it's a Sony," in The Baffler, #6, 1994.
(Re-published in Commodify Your Dissent, New York: Norton, 1997.)

"We're Marketed, Therefore We Are?" in The Baffler, #5, 1993.

with Andrew Mattson, "Public Space, Private Place: The Contested Terrain of Tompkins Square Park," in Berkeley Journal of Sociology, v.37, 1992.

Article Reprints:

"Politics in an Age of Fantasy," in VOL, Japan, Spring 2008, in Japanese (edited selections from Dream)

"Taking Celebrity Seriously," in La Nacion, Argentina, December 23, 2007, in Spanish (reprinted from The Nation)

"Politics in an Age of Fantasy," in Turbulence, June 2007 (edited selections from Dream)

"Dreaming up New Politics," in In These Times February 2007 (edited selections from Dream)

"Play the Game: Grand Theft Desire," in The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007 (edited Chapter 3 from Dream)

Reviews:

Review of Timothy J. Gilfoyl's A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York in Journal of American History, 94 (1) June 2007

Review of Elizabeth and Stuart Ewen's Typecasting: On the Arts And Sciences of Human Inequality in International Journal of Communications, 1, 2007

Review of Thomas Frank's What's The Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America in WorkingUSA, 8 (2) December 2004

Review of David Brooks’ On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense in the San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30, 2004

Review of Thomas Frank's One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy in Working USA, 5(1) Summer 2001

Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, in the San Diego Union-Tribune, January 28, 2001

Review of Dan Schiller's Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System in Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 17(3), 2000

Review of E.J. Graff's What is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intinmate Institution in New York Newsday, July 22, 1999.

Review of James B. Twitchell's Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism in the San Diego Untion Tribune July 19, 1999.

Review of Larry Tye's The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations, in The New England Quarterly, June 1999.

Review of Edwin Schlossberg's Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century, in Beta (www.betaonline.com) March, 1999.

Review of Tricia Rose's Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, in Journal of Communication, 46(2), 1996.

Review of Camille Bacon-Smith's Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, in Journal of Communication, 44(3), 1994.

CHAPTERS and BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

“Censorship, So What? New Concerns for the New Information Age," in Out of Silence, Caridad Svich, ed., Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, in press

"Preface," of After the Clash: Punk and Hardcore After 1977, Alan O'Connor, Ben Holtzman and Emilie Hardman, eds. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, in press

“Introduction” to The Zine Yearbook, Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma, eds., New York: Soft Skull Press, 2003

"Stepping off the Sidewalk: Reclaim the Streets/ NYC" in From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization, Ben Shepard and Ron Hayduk, eds., New York and London: Verso, 2002.

"Notes from Underground" in Alternative Library Literature, Biennial Anthology 1994/1995, Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, eds., Jefferson, NC and London, McFarland & Co., 1996

with Stephen Sifaneck and Andras Szanto, "The Incense Merchant on Times Square: The Black Muslim Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," in Sex, Scams and Street Life: The Sociology of New York City's Times Square, Robert McNamara, ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.

with Sharon Zukin, et al. "The Bubbling Cauldron: Global and Local Interactions in New York City Restaurants," in The Culture of Cities, Sharon Zukin, Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1995.

with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, "Women Clerical Workers: Issues and Trends," in Dual City: The Restructuring of New York, John H. Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells eds., New York: Russell Sage, 1991.

Chapter Reprints:

"Politics in an Age of Fantasy," in Live Art Almanac, London: Live Art UK, in press (edited selections from Dream)

"Purity and Danger," in Cultural Studies: An Anthology, Michael Ryan, ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, in press (edited reprint of chapter seven of Notes...)

"Community: The Zine Scene" in The Subcultures Reader, 2nd edition, Ken Gelder, ed. London: Routledge, 2005 (edited selections from Notes...)

"Sabotage, Slack and the Zinester Search for Non-Alienated Labour" in Ordinary Lifestyles:Popular Media, Consumption, and Taste, David Bell and Joanne Hollows, eds. Berkshire: Open University Press, 2005 (edited reprint of chapter four of Notes...)

"Zines" in Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action, Pepi Leistyna, ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 (edited reprint of chapter one of Notes...)

"I'm a Loser Baby: Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity," in Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, Henry Jenkins et al., eds., North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002. (edited reprint of chapter two of Notes...)

"Let's All Be Alienated Together: Zines and the Making of Underground Community," in Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth Century America, Joe Austin and Michael Nevin Willard, eds., New York: New York University Press, 1998. (edited reprint of chapter three of Notes...)

"I've Seen the Future and it's a Sony," in Commodify Your Dissent, Tom Frank and Matt Weiland, eds., New York: Norton, 1997. (Originally published in The Baffler, #6, 1994.)

Encyclopedia Entries:

"Resistance," entry in The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd edition Farmington, MI: Macmillan/Thomson Gale, 2008

"Cultural Resistance," entry in The Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006

"Resistance," entry in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005

"Wieden + Kennedy" in Encyclopedia of Advertising, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn/Museum of Broadcast Publishers, 2002.

"Zines," in The Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast, eds. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.

"The American Beat Party," in The Encyclopedia of Third Parties, Emmanuel Ness and Jim Ciment, eds. Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

with Andrew Mattson, "Bull Moose: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party of 1912," in The Encyclopedia of Third Parties, Emmanuel Ness, Jim Ciment and Ron Hayduk, eds. Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Politics Past Commodification," invited plenary speaker at The Contested Terrain of Consumption Studies conference, Boston College, Boston, scheduled July 31, 2008

"Performing the Future" and "The Politics Within Popular Culture" invited talks to the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies and the Political Science Department, University of Hawaii, Manoa, scheduled May 8th and 9th, 2008

Invited panelist, "Expression=Life: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis," Deep Dish TV/NYU, NYC, April 18, 2008

Invited participant in Democracy in America ("Town Hall Meetings" of artists and activists also taking place in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Baltimore) organized by Creative Time, NYC, March 13, 2008

Invited speaker for "We Can't Believe, We Must Believe" panel discussion at The Change You Want To See gallery space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, March 3, 2008

"But Does It Work? Understanding Efficacy in Political Art," keynote speaker at Dreaming the Americas: The Body Politic and Performance conference at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, February 22, 2008

"Is There Such a Thing as Progressive Persuasion?" invited talk at Where the Truth Lies: Issues of Contemporary Propaganda conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC, February 15, 2008

"Politics in the Age of YouTube," invited talk with Henry Jenkins at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, February 10, 2008

"What's So Political About Political Art?" invited talk at the Department of Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, November 14, 2007

"Imagination and Efficacy: The Ethical Spectacle," paper presented at the Performance Studies International conference, NYU, NYC, November 9, 2007.

"The Problematic Politics of Resistance," invited talk at The 3Rs: Reform, Revolution and Resistance forum at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, November 6, 2007

"Dream," invited talk at Demos think tank, NYC, June 5, 2007

"Activist Culture and the State of Radical Art," invited talk and moderator at The Center for the Humanities of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, April 24, 2007

"Dreampolitik," invited talk at The Change You Want to See Gallery, Brooklyn, March 27, 2007.

"Progressive Politics in a Phantasmagorical Age," invited talk at the Brecht Forum, New York, February 21, 2007.

"Re-imagining Activism," invited talk for Blue Wave New Jersey (Progressive Democratic Party Activists), Montclair, NJ, February 6, 2007

"The Ethical Spectacle: The Politics of Performance in the 1960s and Today," invited participant in 1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge conference, Drew University, NJ, November 4, 2006

"Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy" talk at the Rethinking Marxism conference, U Mass Amherst, MA, October 26, 2006

"Ethical Spectacle: Must Fantasy Lead to Fascism?" invited talk at Deutsches Haus at NYU, NYC, April 18, 2006

with Andrew Mattson, "Crime, Celebrity and Newspapers in 1920s New York," invited talk at 92nd Street Y, Gotham Center for New York History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC, Winter-Spring 2006

"Applying Marx to the 21st Century," invited talk for the 27th Marxist Intensive, Brecht Forum, NYC, July 24, 2005.

“Anarchism” panel, invited participant at the Global Left Forum, NYC, April 17, 2005

"The Joy of Protest," invited participant at the Life after Capitalism conference, NYC, August 24, 2004

"Bohemia in the Suburbs," invited talk for the Long Island Free Space, Long Island, NY, Winter 2004

"Is Censorship an Archaic Concern? The Politics of Informational Abundance" invited talk at the National Coalition Against Censorship's Censorship in Camouflage series, New School University, NYC, June 17, 2003

"The Kids Are All Right: Contemporary Activism and Pragmatic Action," invited talk for Opperation How, Now, Wow, NYC, April 26, 2003

“Democracy, Community and Commerce: The Function and History of the Press,” invited talk for the Ethnic Press Fellowship, New School University, NYC, Winter 2003

"Cultural Stategies in Contemporary North American Direct Action Activist Movements" paper at the Open University conference, Oxford, UK, September 18, 2002

“Innovative Organizing,” invited talk given at The Brecht Forum, NYC, February 6, 2002

Moderator of "Rhetorics of Coincidence and the Art of Counter-Narration," panel at the "Culture Jamming" conference, New York University, NYC, February 23, 2001

"Comrade/Professor" at panel sponsored by Radical Teacher at the Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, September 23, 2000

"The New Public Sphere: Pillar of Democracy or Tower of Babel?" invited talk at "Public Intellectuals: The Cyberspace Generation" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 21, 2000

"Alternative Media in a High School Setting," invited talk and workshop for New York City public school teachers sponsored by Eyebeam Atelier, New York City, Winter 2000.

"Resistant Culture. Resistant Politics?" invited talk given at The Depot, Vienna, Austria, October 22, 1999.

"Cultures of Resistance?" invited talk given at the New School for Social Research, NYC, Winter, 1998.

"The Communist Manifesto: Still Useful After 150 Years?" invited talk given at a symposium to honor Paul Sweezy, Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT, December 4, 1998.

"The Politics of Representation." invited talk given at Barnard College, NYC, November 4, 1998.

"Popular Culture: It's Promise and Limitations." panel participant at Manifestivity, a Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, Cooper Union, NYC, October 30, 1998.

"Radical Organizing: Then and Now." panel participant at Manifestivity, a Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, Cooper Union, NYC, October 31, 1998.

"Public Space is Dangerous." invited talk given at Sharing Histories, a cultural festival in celebration of public space, Paper Tiger TV and Downtown Community Television, NYC, October 4, 1998.

"Let's All Be Alienated Together: Creating a Virtual Bohemia." invited talk given at the University of Southern Maine, Portland ME, April 24, 1998.

"Reinventing Rebellion in the Consumer Era." invited talk given at the State University of New York, College at Purchase, Purchase NY, April 22, 1998.

"Conspiracy Theory and the Changing Fortunes of the Left," panel participant at the Socialist Scholars Conference, NYC, March 28, 1997

"Politics of Alternative Culture." invited talk given at the New School for Social Research, NYC, Winter 1997.

"Fordism and the Rise of Consumer Society." invited talk given at Columbia University, NYC, Winter 1996.

"Radical Culture, Conservative Society: Models for Understanding the Relationship Between Culture and Society." invited talk given at the Culture Matters Symposium, Brecht Forum, NYC, Winter 1996.

"Discovering the Underground: Subcultural Responses to the Marketing of Generation X." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, NYC, August 19, 1996.

"Writing, Ranting, and Riot Grrrls: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Underground Culture." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 20, 1995.

"The Disciplining of Undisciplined Subjects: Making Sense of Popular Culture." invited talk given at the New York State Library, Albany NY, Fall 1994.

"The Politics of Zines." invited talk given at Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, Fall 1994.

with Andrew Mattson, "Bread Lines and Rose Bushes: The Political Aesthetics of Space in Tompkins Square Park." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Miami FL, August 16, 1993.

"Gold Chains and African Medallions." Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference, Providence RI, April 13, 1991.

Readings at: 92nd Street Y, NYC, 92nd Street Y (West Side Annex), NYC; Bluestockings Books, NYC, Meow Mix, NYC; Brecht Forum, NYC; Labyrinth Bookstore, NYC; Yippie Museum Café, NYC, VoxPop, Brooklyn, NY; Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair, Baltimore, MD; Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco CA; Laughing Horse Books, Portland OR; Annie Bloom's, Portland OR, Elliott Bay Books, Seattle WA; Left Bank Books, Seattle WA; 1997-present

MEDIA, EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES

"The Art of the Impossible," catalog essay for Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert's Wish You Were Here! Postcards from our Awesome Future, San Francisco Arts Commission, April 2008.

Movie rights to The Bobbed Haired Bandit optioned, Fearless Films/TickleTime Productions, 2006-2007

"Do Zines Still Matter?" catalog essay for The Art of Zines, exhibit at ABC No Rio gallery space, NYC, October-November, 2007

Irregular Blogger, Reality Sandwich (www.realitysandwich.com), 2007-present

"Censorship? So What" and "Politics in an Age of Fantasy" invited performances at Rants and Rhapsodies, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, October 2006 and January 2007

"The Truth Sets No One Free," invited performance at THAW/NOPE, The Culture Project, NYC, April 17 2006

"Culture and Dissent," audio curricular material for Open University political studies course DD203, UK, 2004

"Talking Music and Politics," edited roundtable discussion, The Activist, Winter 2000

Humanities Advisor to This American Life,nationally syndicated public radio show, 1998-2000.

Regular Commentator on Anthem, nationally syndicated public radio show, 1998-99.

with Andrew Mattson, co-editor of Primary Documents #'s 1-7, covering: "Immigration," "Sensationalism," "African-Americans and TV," "Cities," "Radio and Utopia," "Children as Consumers," and the "Spanish-American War." PD is a periodical of annotated primary documents covering social and media history, 1995-1999. Excerpts from issues #5 and # 6 were featured in Harper's Magazine, September 1996 and February 1997, respectively.

Advisor to "In The Marketplace of Private Life," an art exhibit at the Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston MA, Fall 1999 and traveling to the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Winter 1999; Deborah Bright, Curator.

Regular host of "Blows Against the Empire" on Steal This Radio, pirate radio of the Lower East Side, NYC, 1997-99.

Advisor to "Counterculture," an exhibit on the alternative press at Exit Art, NYC, Spring 1996; Brian Wallis, Curator.

Creator and maintainer of the Primary Documents Web Site, http://home.earthlink.net/~srduncombe, 1996-1999.

"Leisler's Rebellion," public art piece as part of REPOhistory Street Sign Project, 1992-93.

Featured role in Crash the G8 Party, documentary video, Paper Tiger TV, Summer 1999

Featured role in Subverting Media: A Low-Tech Guide to Information Activism, documentary video, Paper Tiger TV, 1998

with Stephanie Basch, "From Darkness Into Light, or from Justification to Mystification: An Illustrated History of Race and Representation in the United States," WWIII Illustrated Comic Book, New York: 1994.

Radio guest on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Here and Now."

Interviews:

Print: The Indypendent/Indy Media, September 4, 2007; Print magazine, July/August 2007; Valor Econômico, Sao Paulo, April 9, 2007 (in Portuguese); The Village Voice, Feb. 28-March 6, 2007 (profile)

Web: ds4si (Design Studio for Social Intervention), October 1, 2007; Addicted to Race, August 8, 2007 (podcast); Confessions of an Aca-Fan (Henry Jenkins's blog), July 23&24, 2007; Buzz Flash, July 7, 2007; MRzine, February 23, 2007.

Television: Canal + (France), March 21, 2008.

Radio: "Air America," US; WNYC, New York NY; WBAI, New York NY; KPFK, Los Angeles CA; KUCI, Orange County CA; KPFA, Berkeley CA; KALW, San Francisco CA; KRCL, Salt Lake City UT; WMPG Portland ME; KBOO, Portland OR; WORT, Madison, WS; KSFR, Sante Fe NM; WPKN, Bridgeport CT; WGNU, St Louis MO; KOPN, Columbia MO; WEBR, Fairfax VA

HONORS AND AWARDS

Global Fellowship Award, New York University, Spring 2008 (returned)

Stephen Golden Faculty Enrichment Fund, New York University, 2000, 2001, 2007

Blue Mountain Center Resident, Summer 2001

Service Learning Course Development Grant, New York University, 2000

Larry J. Hackman Research Residency, New York State Archives Partnership Trust, 1999.

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York, 1998

New York State Library Research Residency, 1994-95.

Presidential Faculty Development Grant, SUNY Old Westbury, 1994, 1995.

Joseph Monticciolo Fellowship for Studies in Community and Technology, 1993-94.

Bensman Award for Dissertation Proposal, 1993.

Jacob K. Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education, 1989-93.

University Fellowship, CUNY, 1988-89, 1992.

President's Award in the Division of Social Sciences, SUNY Purchase, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Treasurer, American Association of University Professors, NYU, 2004-present

Editorial Collective, Social Text, 2008-present

Editorial Advisory Board, Tikkun magazine, 2005-present

Manuscript Reader: Verso Press, New York University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Temple University Press, Open University Press, Zed Press, Contexts (ASA), Journal of Public Culture, Popular Communication, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Sociology Compass, International Journal of Communication, Social Text

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Steering Committee, Provost's Council for Media and Culture, NYU, 2006-present

Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gallatin 2006-present

Executive Committee, Gallatin, 2006-2007

Faculty Co-Chair, Gallatin, 2004-2006

Chair, Curriculum Committee, Gallatin, 2004-2006

Member, Curriculum Committee, Gallatin, 2000-2007

Steering Committee, Community Learning Initiative, Gallatin, 2000-present

Also: Convocation Speaker, Commencement Speaker, "model class" instructor for Diversity Weekend, University Day and Alumni Weekend, participant in: Budget Committee, Dinalogue, Gallatin Coffee House, Albert Gallatin Lecture Series, Gallatin Film Series, Donor's Breakfast, Parents' Day, Mock Colloquium, President's Roundtable, and multiple Search Committees, 1999-present

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Organizer, Reclaim the Streets/New York City, 1998-2004

Co-founder, Lower East Side Collective, community-based activist group, 1997-2000

Member, Board of Directors, Brecht Forum/NYMS, 1990-96.

Member, REPOhistory, Artist/Historian Collective, 1990-93.

Also active in various support roles to a variety of groups and organizations including the Community Labor Coalition, More Gardens!, Charas/El Bohio Community Center, Good Jobs New York, Billionaires for Bush or Gore/United for a Fair Economy, Election of Citycouncilwoman Margarita Lopez, Mobilization for Survival, CIRCA, CISPES, ACT UP!, UNITE! Local 169, ACT/UAW, JFREJ, Nicaragua Solidarity Network, Mexican American Workers Association, United for Peace and Justice, GoLeft, Times Up, Transportation Alternatives, et al.