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Marisa Abrajano | Emily Colborn-Roxworthy | Mark Jacobsen | Roger Levy | David E. Pedersen | Roberto Tejada | Daniel Widener | Elana Zilberg BiographiesMarisa Abrajano (PhD New York University) studies campaigns, elections and voting behavior, with a special emphasis on Latinos and other racial/ethnic minorities in CA and the U.S. Her current research examines the strategies used by candidates to target Spanish-speaking populations in the U.S. Marisa teaches in the Department of Political Science. Emily Colborn-Roxworthy (PhD Northwestern) researches performances of the Asian diaspora from the 1940s to the present. Her current book project, The Theatre of Japanese American Internment: The Academy, the Press, and Camp Performance, examines the intersection of theatricality and the post-Pearl Harbor evacuation forced upon those of Japanese descent on the West Coast. Emily has also researched teenage Nisei girls’ performance of Kabuki theatre in the Rohwer (Arkansas) internment camp, as well as the FBI's treatment of ethnic minorities in the U.S. from WWII to the present. Her work has appeared in Theatre Research International and The Drama Review. Emily teaches courses in the Theatre and Dance department including Asian American Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Solo Performance, and many others, and welcomes non-majors to join the dialogue. Mark Jacobsen , Economics
Mark Jacobsen (PhD Stanford) examines the broad impact of regulations to reduce gasoline use, including the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and regulations within California directed at meeting goals of the state's AB 1493 (Pavley) legislation. California's "automobile culture" makes regulation particularly difficult and Jacobsen's work addresses the effects of automobile policy on the state's low-income populations. He has also studied the interplay of electricity regulation and air-quality controls in the Los Angeles basin and continues research on climate change policy. Roger Levy (PhD Stanford) researches aspects of structure and processing in a range of typologically diverse languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and German. In addition to improving our understanding of how human languages may be represented and processed in the brain, this research is also useful in building computer applications that can understand and produce human language. Roger joined the Department of Linguistics at UCSD in 2006 after a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Pedersen received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004, followed by a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the study of Salvadoran immigrants at both ends of the US-El Salvador migration continuum. His dissertation, “American Value: Migrants, Money, and Modernity in El Salvador and the Unites States,” is a historical ethnography of El Salvador and its relations with the U.S. during the 20th century. It is based on several years of research in the small rural town of Intipuca in southeastern El Salvador and in Washington, D.C. where a large community of migrants from Intipuca reside. At UCSD, Dr. Pedersen plans to extend the scope of his work to include the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan region. An additional work, his Anthropology, History and Value Project has produced several publications. Dr. Pedersen received excellent teaching reviews for his design and teaching of undergraduate courses at the University of Michigan. His cross-cultural approach to immigrant communities represented in California and to the study of the social, political, and economic dynamics of the migratory process will allow UCSD to expand offerings in areas relevant to modern American culture. Roberto Tejada is a visual arts critic, photography historian, and curator. His research interrogates twentieth-century image-making from the perspective of interdisciplinary discourses in Latin American and Latino studies, cultural and critical theory, literary studies, art history, and visual culture analysis, to the degree that these methods arbitrate between the limits of visual representation and the habits of language inflected by sexual and social difference. He received his BA from New York University and his MA and PhD from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and teaches courses with the Visual Arts Dept at UCSD. His book, Travels in the Image Environment: Camera Culture Out of Mexico, 1900 and After, examines how Mexican and U.S. cultures are encapsulated and transformed in photographic images, as well as in the various kinds of writing about them. Tejada has co-curated various exhibitions in the US and Mexico.
Daniel Widener earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. He is an assistant professor in the Dept. of History at UCSD and teaches African American and Californian history. His research examines expressive culture, race, ethnicity, and political radicalism among African Americans in post-World War II Los Angeles. Elana Zilberg , Communication
Elana Zilberg earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin. She teaches in the Dept. of Communication at UCSD, offering courses on globalization, race and ethnicity in California, and cultures of consumption. Dr. Zilberg studies the contentious spatial and cultural politics surrounding the Latinization of Los Angeles and the Americanization of El Salvador, with particular attention to the uneven global cultural flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas between California and Central America.
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