Alison M Griffiths
Distinguished Professor
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Communication Studies
Areas of expertise:
Email Address: alison.griffiths@baruch.cuny.edu
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- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Education
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University
M.A., Film & TV, University of London
P.G.C.E., Education, University of London
B.A., Drama & English, University of Leicester
Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
---|---|---|---|
Fall 2023 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
Fall 2023 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Fall 2022 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Spring 2022 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2021 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Fall 2020 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Spring 2020 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2019 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Spring 2018 | THEA | 82500 | Directed Independent Study |
Fall 2017 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Summer 2017 | COM | 5010 | Internship Bus Comm |
Spring 2017 | PSY | 9786 | Seminar Contemp Psy Topics |
Fall 2016 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Fall 2016 | COM | 9991 | Masters Thesis In Cc |
Spring 2015 | COM | 3058 | Ethics Of Img Making |
Spring 2015 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2014 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Fall 2014 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Fall 2014 | COM | 5000 | Independent Study COM I |
Summer 2014 | COM | 5000 | Independent Study COM I |
Spring 2014 | COM | 9991 | Masters Thesis In Cc |
Spring 2014 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Spring 2014 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2013 | COM | 9991 | Masters Thesis In Cc |
Fall 2013 | COM | 3058 | Ethics Of Img Making |
Fall 2013 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2013 | COM | 9992 | MA Capstone Project |
Spring 2013 | COM | 9991 | Masters Thesis In Cc |
Spring 2013 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2013 | COM | 3058 | Ethics Of Img Making |
Spring 2013 | FLM | 3002 | History of Film II |
Spring 2013 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2012 | COM | 9660 | Sel Topics/Corp Comm |
Fall 2012 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Spring 2012 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Spring 2012 | COM | 9992 | MA Capstone Project |
Fall 2010 | COM | 3058 | Ethics Of Img Making |
Fall 2010 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2010 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2010 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Fall 2009 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Fall 2009 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Fall 2009 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Spring 2009 | COM | 4101 | Selected Topics |
Spring 2009 | FLM | 3001 | History of Film I |
Spring 2009 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2008 | COM | 4101 | Selected Topics |
Fall 2008 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Fall 2008 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Summer 2008 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2008 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2008 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Fall 2007 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Fall 2007 | COM | 4101 | Selected Topics |
Fall 2007 | COM | 5000 | Independent Study COM I |
Fall 2007 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2007 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Spring 2007 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Spring 2007 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Spring 2007 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Fall 2006 | COM | 9900 | Independent Study |
Fall 2006 | COM | 4101 | Selected Topics |
Spring 2006 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Spring 2006 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2005 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2005 | COM | 5000 | Independent Study COM I |
Spring 2005 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Spring 2005 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Spring 2004 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Spring 2004 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Spring 2004 | COM | 9655 | Corp Adv, Img & Iden |
Fall 2003 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Spring 2003 | ENG | 3280 | Documentary Film |
Spring 2003 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2002 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Fall 2002 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Spring 2002 | ENG | 3280 | Documentary Film |
Spring 2002 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2001 | COM | 1010 | Speech Communication |
Fall 2001 | COM | 3060 | Media Analysis and Criticism |
Fall 2001 | COM | 3067 | American Television Programmin |
Books
Griffiths, A. M. (2016). Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth Century America. (p. 448). New York, USA, Columbia University Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008). Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. (p. 448 pages, 79 illustrations). New York, Columbia University Press (Winner of Design Award, Bookbinders Guild, 2008).
Griffiths, A. M. (2002). Wondrous Difference: Cinema Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (Winner of the Katherine S. Kovacs Award for the Best Book in Film and Media Studies, 2003; Honorable Mention for the Krazna Krausz Moving Image Book Award, 2004). (p. 463 pages, 100 illustrations). New York, Columbia University Press .
Journal Articles
Griffiths, A. M. (2020). "Cinema in Extremis: Mount Everest and the Poetics of Monumentality". Film History, 30pp.
Griffiths, A. M. (2016). “’For the amusement of the shutins’: Distraction in Prison Film Exhibition". Film History, 28(3). 1-23.
Griffiths, A. M. (2014). “The Carceral Aesthetic: Seeing Prison on Film During the Early Cinema Period". Early Popular Visual Culture, 12(2). 174-198.
Griffiths, A. M. (2014). "Tableaux Mort: Execution, Cinema, and Galvanistic Fantasies". Republics of Letters: A Journal of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, 3(3). 1-31.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013). "A Portal to the Outside World: Motion Pictures Arrive in the Penitentiary". Film History, 25(4). 35.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013). “Sensual Vision: 3-D, Medieval Art, and the Cinematic Imaginary". Film Criticism, XXXVII(3). 60-85.
(2012). "The Untrammeled Camera: A Topos of the Ethnographic Expedition Film". Film History, 25(1-2). 95-109.
(2011). The 1920s Museum Sponsored Expedition Film: Beguiling Encounters in All But Forgotten Genre,. Early Popular Visual Culture, 9(3). 271-92.
(2010). Magic, Wonder and the Fantastical Margins: Medieval Visual Culture and Cinematic Special Effects. The Journal of Visual Culture, 9(2). 163=88.
(2008). Distempered Daubs': The Ethnographic Significance of Nineteenth Century Panoramas. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
(2007). "The Revered Gaze: The Medieval Imaginary of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ". Cinema Journal, 47(4). 3-39.
(2006). “’They Go to See A Show’: Vicissitudes of Spectating and the Anxiety Over the Machine in the Nineteenth Century Science Museum" . Early Popular Visual Culture, 6(3). 245-71.
(2006). "'They Go to See A Show': Vicissitudes of Spectating and the Anxiety Over the Machine in the Nineteenth Century Science Museum". Early Popular Culture, 6(3). 245-71.
(2003). "Le panorama et les origins de la reconstitution cinématographe". Cinémas: Revue D’études Cinématographiques (Journal of Film Studies), 14(1). 35-66.
(2003). "'Shivers Down Your Spine': Panoramas, Illusionism, and the Origins of the Cinematic Reenactment" (This essay won honorable mention for the Katherine S. Kovacs Society for Cinema Studies Best Published Essay Writing Award, March 2004). Screen, 44(1). 1-37.
(2001). "Playing at Being Indian: Spectatorship and the Early Western". Journal of Popular Film and Television, 29(3). 100-111.
(2001). "'Yes in Truth all the World Was There': World's Fairs and the Social Horizon of Early Ethnographic Film". Living Pictures, 1(1). 59-77.
(1999). "'To the World the World We Show': Early Travelogues as Filmed Ethnography" (This essay won honorable mention for the Katherine S. Kovacs Society for Cinema Studies Best Published Essay Writing Award, March 2001). Film History, 11(3). 282-307.
(1997). "Knowledge and Visuality in Turn of Century Anthropology: The Early Ethnographic Cinema of Alfred Cort Haddon and Walter Baldwin Spencer". Visual Anthropology Review, 12(2). 18-43.
(1996). "Discourses of Nationalism in Guru Dutt's Pyassa". Deep Focus, 6. 24-31.
(1996). “‘A Moving Picture in Two Senses’: Allegories of the Nation in 1950s Indian Melodrama”. Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 9(2). 174-184.
(1996). “‘Journeys For Those Who Can Not Travel’: Promenade Cinema and the Museum Life Group”. Wide Angle, 18(3). 53-84.
(1994). "Ethnography and Popular Memory: Postmodern Configurations of Welsh Identities". Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 7(2). 307-326.
(1993). "Welsh Televison Audiences and National Identity: Intersections of Cultural Studies and Ethnographic Method". Commission for Visual Anthropology Newsletter, 3-7.
Book Chapters
Griffiths, A. M. (2019). “Cinema on the Move: Museum Sponsored Expedition Film in the Silent Era”. In Keil, C., & King, R. (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to Silent Cinema (p. 25pp). Oxford,United Kingdom. Blackwell.
Griffiths, A. M. (2017). "Through Central Borneo with Carl Lumholtz: The Visual and Texual Output of a Norwegian Explorer". In Frisvold Hanssen, E., & Fosheim Lund, M. (Eds.), "Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films" (pp. 136-77). Oslo,Norway. National Musuem of Oslo.
Griffiths, A. M. (2016). “Through Central Borneo with Carl Lumholtz: The Visual and Textual Output of a Norwegian Explorer”. Critical Approaches to Norwegian Expedition Films 1911-1950 (p. 27 pages). Oslo, Norway. National Museum of Oslo Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2015). “The World Without and the World Within: Sensory Media in an Age of Empire". In Classen, C. (Ed.), The Age of Empire vol. in Cultural History of the Senses from Antiquity to Modernity (pp. 211-234). London,UK. Berg.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013). Camping Among the Indians: Visual Education and the Sponsored Expedition Film at the American Museum of Natural History. In Bell, J. A., Brown, A. K., & Gordon, R. (Eds.), Reinventing First Contac: Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture (pp. 90-108). Washington DC,USA. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012). “Playing at Being Indian: Spectatorship and the Early Western". In Edgerton, G. R., & Marsden, M. (Eds.), Westerns: The Essential Journal of Popular Film and Television Collection (pp. 100-11). New York,USA. Routledge.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012). “Bound By Cinematic Chains: Early Cinema and Prisons, 1900-1915,”. In Gaudreault, A. (Ed.), A Companion to Early Cinema (pp. 420-40). Oxford,USA. Blackwell.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012). “Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s”. In Orgeron, M., Orgeron, D., & Streible, D. (Eds.), Learning with the Lights Off (pp. 124-44). New York. Oxford University Press.
(2011). “’A Moving Picture of the Heavens’: Planetarium Space Shows as Useful Cinema,” in Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts. Durham, NC. Duke University Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010). “The Epic Grotesque: The Passion of the Christ (2004)”. In Burgoyne, R. (Ed.), The Epic Film in World Culture (p. 315=45). New York. Routledge, AFI Film Reader.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009). "'Distembered Daubs' and Encyclopaedic World Maps: The Ethnographic Significance of Nineteenth Century Panoramas and Mappaemundi". In Edwards, E., & Morton, C. (Eds.), Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (pp. 27-54). Farnham, Surrey. Ashgate.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007). New Media and the Natual History Museum: Comtemporary Practices and Controversies. In Acland, C. R. (Ed.), Residual Media Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007). The Medieval Roots of Cinematic Epics: The Passion of the Christ Explored. In Burgoyne, R. (Ed.), The Epic Film in World Culture AFI Film Reader Series.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007). “’Automatic Cinema’ and Illustrated Radio: Multimedia in the Museum”. In Acland, C. R. (Ed.), Residual Media (pp. 69-96). Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2006). “Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen”. In Ruoff, J. (Ed.), Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel (pp. 238-58). Durham. Duke University Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2006). Expanded Vision: Traveling as Far as the Eye Can See. In Ruoff, J. (Ed.), Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel (pp. 238-58). Durham. Duke University Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2004). "'The Largest Picture Ever Executed by Man': Panoramas and the Emergence of Large-Screen and 360 Degree Internet Technologies". In Fullerton, J. (Ed.), Screen Culture: History and Textuality (pp. 199-220). London. John Libbey Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2003). "Media Technology and Museum Display: A Century of Accommodation and Conflict". In Thorburn, D., & Jenkins, H. (Eds.), Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition (pp. 375-89 (Reprinted in Informal Learning, No.66, May-June 2004)). Cambridge, Mass,USA. MIT Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (2003). "Gender and Stereotyping". In Miller, T. (Ed.), Television Studies (pp. 94-97). London. British Film Institute.
Griffiths, A. M. (2000). "'We Partake as it Were of His Life': The Status of Visual in Early Ethnographic Film". In Fullerton, J., & Söderberggh-Widding, A. (Eds.), Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam (pp. 91-110). London. John Libbey & Company Ltd..
Griffiths, A. M. (1999). "Film and Ethnic Identity in Harlem, 1896-1915". In Stokes, M., & Maltby, R. (Eds.), American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era (pp. 46-63). London. British Fillm Institute.
Griffiths, A. M. (1998). "'Animated Geography': Early Cinema at the American Museum of Natrual History". In Fullerton, J. (Ed.), Celebrating 1895: The Centenary of Cinema (pp. 190-202). London. John Libbey & Company Ltd..
Griffiths, A. M. (1998). "'To Disappoint the Ravages of Time': Precinematic Ethnography at the American Museum of Natual History". In Dupre la Tour, C., Gaudreault, A., & Pearson, R. (Eds.), Cinema at the Turn of the Century (pp. 107-12). Quebec/Lausanne. Editions Nota Bene/Editions Payot Lausanne.
Griffiths, A. M. (1996). "Science and Spectacle: Native American Representation in Early Cinema". In Bird, E. (Ed.), Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of Indian in American Popular Culture (pp. 79-95). Boulder. Westview Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (1996). "Ethnography and the Politics of Audience Research". In Crawford, P. I., & Baldur Hafsteinsson, S. (Eds.), The Construction of the Viewer (pp. 47-65). Copenhagen. Intervention Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (1995). "National and Cultural Identity in a Welsh Language Soap Opera". In Allen, R. C. (Ed.), To Be Continued: Soap Operas Around the World (pp. 81-97). London. Routledge.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993). "Pobol Y Cwm: National and Cultural Identity in a Welsh Language Soap Opera". In Paterson, R., & Willis, J. (Eds.), National Identity and Europe: The Televison Revolution (pp. 9-24). London. British Film Institute.
Presentations
Griffiths, A. M. (2020, June 30). “Fieldwork as Filmwork: The Parallel Histories of Expeditions and Cinema”. Domitor. Paris, France: Domitor (Organization for the Study of Early Cinema).
Griffiths, A. M. (2020, March 31). “Film as Historical Memory: Reevaluating the Visual Legacy of the 1920s Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial”. Archival Connections Speaker Series. Smithsonian Institution: National Anthropological Archives.
Griffiths, A. M. (2020, April 30). "Expedition Film and the Vagaries of Exhibition". Film and Media Graduate Student Organization. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.
Griffiths, A. M. (2019, January 31). “Vertiginous Cinema: 1920s Expedition Films of Mount Everest". “Finding One’s Place: Photography and Its Many Dimensions". California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA: USC/Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Griffiths, A. M. (2019, October 31). “Medieval Dream Worlds: Media Imaginaries and Technologies". “Spectacle: Knowledge Communication as Aesthetic Practice”. Tübingen, Germany: University of Tübingen, Germany.
Griffiths, A. M. (2019, May 31). “Everest’s Monumental Aesthetics and the Struggle for Cinematic Meaning". Monumentality Symposium. The Getty, Los Angeles: The Getty Research Center.
Griffiths, A. M. (2019, November 30). “The "Exploitation Expedition Film and the Medieval Geographical Imaginary”. Visual Studies Program Speaker Series. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2019, March 31). "Filming Everest: Expeditionary Cinema Sponsored by the Royal Geographic Society in the 1920s". SCMS. Seattle: SCMS.
Griffiths, A. M. (2018, November 30). “Imagining Prison on Screen". “Cultural Politics of Prison Towns”. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester.
Griffiths, A. M. (2018, March 31). “In Marco Polo’s Footsteps: The Enigma of Expedition Cinema”. SCMS. Toronto: SCMS.
Griffiths, A. M. (2018, November 30). “Looking Out and Looking In: Prison Communities Through the Prism of Film". University of Rochester, Carceral Logics Speaker Series. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester.
Griffiths, A. M. (2017, September 30). “Visions of Immersion: Canvas, Screen, and Borderless Zone". Third-Century Screens Colloquium. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Griffiths, A. M. (2017, March 31). “Real and Imagined Violence at the Prison Film Screening". SCMS. Chicago: SCMS.
Griffiths, A. M. (2016, April 30). . WC2 Planning Meeting Global Culture Group. Hong Kong
Griffiths, A. M. (2016, March 31). “Media in the Women’s Reformatory: The (Slow) Rise of Entertainment Culture and Anxiety About Cinema". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Atlanta
Griffiths, A. M. (2016, August 31). “The University/City/Global Nexus as Imagined in Promotional Film and Video". WC2 Summer Symposium Global Culture Group. Berlin
Griffiths, A. M. (2015, November 15). "Introductory Remarks". “Women and the Media: Counterattack, the Media, the War on Women, and How to Fight Back.”. Baruch College: State Senator Liz Krueger Office.
Griffiths, A. M. (2015, August 31). Seminar Leader. WC2 Summer Symposium Global Culture Group. London: WC2.
Griffiths, A. M. (2015, May 8). "Historical Antecedents for Immersive Entertainments". Transforming Hollywood 6: Immersive Entertainments. Los Angeles: USC.
Griffiths, A. M. (2014, March 20). “The Carceral Aesthetic and ‘Border Thinking’: Prisons on Screen Before 1910". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Seattle: Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Griffiths, A. M. (2014, November 11). “World’s Fairs and Immersive Technologies.”. School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences. Troy, New York: Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013, June 30). "The Untrammeled Camera: A Tops of the Ethnographic Expedition Film". Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film. Edinburgh, Scotland: RAI.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013, June 30). "Screens Behind Bars: The Mediascape of the Early Twentieth Century Prison". Scottish Graduate School for Social Science Summer School. Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh, College of Humanities and Social Science.
Griffiths, A. M. (2013, October 6). . World Cities/World Class Universities. Milan, Italy: WC2.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, October 11). “Incarcerated Vision: Cinema, Prison, and the Senses.". XVI conference of Socine, the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual. Sao Paolo: Brazilian Society for Cinema Studies.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, November 16). “A Portal to Freedom: Cinema’s Emergence in the Early Twentieth Century Prison.". Film Theory and Visual Culture Seminar. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, September 27). “Incarcerated Vision: Cinema, Prison, and the Senses". "Ecologies of Seeing". Albany, NY: Nomadikon.
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, March 15). "Not Quite or More Than Cinema? Film in the Prison". SCMS Annual Conference. Boston
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, June 18). “Old New Media: The Time Warp Case of Motion Pictures in Prison.". Domitor (International Organization for the Study of Early Cinema). Brighton, UK
Griffiths, A. M. (2012, September 7). “The Untrammeled Camera: A Topos of the Expedition Film". Norwegian Expedition Film. Oslo, Norway: Norwegian National Library.
Griffiths, A. M. (2011, April 1). “Edison, Houdini, and the Electric Chair". The Powers of Display: Cinemas of Investigation, Demonstration, and Illusion. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Griffiths, A. M. (2011, April 7). “Screens Behind Bars: Cinema and Prisons". Berkeley Film Seminar. Berkeley, CA: University of California Berkeley.
Griffiths, A. M. (2011, September 22). “Tableau Mort: Capital Punishment, Spectacle and Cinema". Europe on Display. Montreal, Canada: McGill University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2011, October 13). "Popular Display and Museum Representation". Bard, NYC: Bard Graduate Center, NYC.
Griffiths, A. M. (2011, November 18). “Staging Death: Capital Punishment, Cinema, and Spectacle". University of Utrecht. Utrecht, Netherlands: Department of Film and Media.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, June 14). “Bound by Cinematic Chains: Films and Prisons, 1900-1915.". Domitor (International Organization for the Study of Early Cinema). Toronto, Canada: Ryerson/Toronto University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, June 24). “Women, Prisons, and the Silent Screen". Women and the Silent Screen. Bologna, Italy: University of Bologna.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, November 8). “The Captive Audience: Cinema, Prisons, and Spectatorship.". Communication Studies Brown Bag Lunch Series. Baruch College: Communication Studies, Baruch College.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, November 13). “The Magic Lantern Slide: From Ghost Show to Geographic World Tour". “Lantern Slides: Looking Glass Through History”. AMNH, NY: Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, December 16). “Archival Dreams: Early Ethnographic Cinema and its Spheres of Influence”. Fiona Tan Exhibit. Washington, DC: Free Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, June 4). “The Captive Audience: Films and Prisons from the Silent Era.". The ARTHEMIS International Conference On the History and Epistemology of Film and Moving Images Studies. Montreal, Canada: Concordia University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, February 27). Wonder, Magic, and the Spectacular Margins: Medieval Visual Culture and Cinematic Special Effects.". “Glorious Technicolor”. Warwick, UK: Warwick University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, March 16). "Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s.". SCMS. Los Angeles, CA
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, March 18). Nontheatrical Film Workshop. SCMS. Los Angeles, LA
Griffiths, A. M. (2010, April 17). “Displaying Difference, Ways of Seeing and Ethnographic Fantasy in Early Modern Culture.". World's Congress of Peoples: Science in Film. Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY: Coney Island Museum.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, October 1). "Archiveology: Theorizing the Moving Image Archive". Montreal, Canada: Concordia University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, October 1). “New Perspectives on the Museums Expedition Film: The Woodcraft League, Peter Pan, and Reclaiming Native Agency.". Concordia University, Montreal, Canada: ARTHEMIS Group Fall Research Seminar.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, May 31). “Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema, Lights up the Gallery in the 1920s.". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Tokyo, Japan
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, April 10). "The Sponsored Expedition Film Unpacked.". Mass Culture Workshop. Chicago: University of Chicago.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, March 12). “Camping Among the Indians: Sponsored Expedition Film at the American Museum of Natural History.". Columbia Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation. Columbia University, NYC: Columbia University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, June 3). “Nontheatrical Ethnographic Film: Playing Indian in the Museum Sponsored Expedition Film". Visual Delights IV. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2009, February 27). “Popular Culture and Museum Gallery Display”. Manhattan, NYC: Bard Graduate Center, NYC.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, December 31). . Baruch College Honors Society Brown Bag Lunch Series. Baruch College: Honors Society.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, November 14). "The Cultural Horizon of 'In the Land of the Head Hunters'". Edward Curtis "In the Land of the Head-Hunters". New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, November 12). “The Expedition Film as Marginal Cinema: Boy Scouts and Potlatches at the American Museum of Natural History.". Culture, Media, and Globalization. Stockholm, Sweden: The American Studies Speaker Series.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, October 28). "The Holocaust in Film”. “Weissman Talks Series". Engelman Hall, Baruch College: WSAS.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, October 24). "Panoramas, IMAX, and the Immersive View". Columbia University: Film Studies Department.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, September 4). "The IMAX Experience". California Institute of Science, Los Angeles: Graduate Certificate Program in Visual Studie.
Griffiths, A. M., & Scandiffilo, T. (2008, March 31). Museum Sponsored Film and the Struggle for Ethnographic Certitude. "Intimate and Instructive Views: Museum Sponsored Expedition Films of the Twenties". Philadelphia, PA: SCMS.
Griffiths, A. M. (2008, January 23). "Historicizing Special Effects: A medieval Topos". University of Pennsylvania Cinema Studies Colloquium Series. University of Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Cinema Studies.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007, November 30). Film and the Museum-Sponsored Expedition: Developments at the AMNH in the 1920s. "Expeditions, Anthropology, and Popular Culture: Reinventing First Contact". Washington DC: American Anthropological Association Annual Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007, April 30). Keynote Address. "Science and Film". Olomouc, Czech Republic: Olomouc Film Festival.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007, March 31). Spectacularis Effectus: A Medieval Pre-History of Cinematic Special Effects. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Chicago
Griffiths, A. M. (2007, March 20). Lecture on ethnographic representation in 19th century panoramas. "On Film". Norfolk, Virgina: Norfolk/Old Dominion University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2007, January 22). Interdisciplinary Border Crossings: Research Methods and Strategies for Working In and Alongside Film and Media Studies. Department of Media Arts. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona.
Griffiths, A. M. (2006, November 4). Seeing Asia through the US: Early Asian Travelogues. East Meets West: Charles Freer's Vision of Asia. : Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Griffiths, A. M. (2006, August 31). 'Moving Picture of the Heaven': The Planetarium Space Show. Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts. Concordia University, Montreal: The Planetarium Space Show.
Griffiths, A. M. (2006, March 31). Cinematic Frontiers of the Third Kind: Planetarium Space Shows as Intermedial Events. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Vancouver, BC
Griffiths, A. M. (2006, April 28). Methodological Branding in Film and Media Studies: Interdisciplinary Dilemmas. Film and Media Studies Methodology Symposium. CUNY Graduate Center: CUNY Graduate Center.
Griffiths, A. M. (2005, November 30). Mechanical Aids to Learning: Film and Multimedia in the Muesum. History of Science Conference. Minneapolis
Griffiths, A. M. (2005, May 31). Passion[ate] Storytelling: Transmedia Version of the Crucifixion. "The Work of Stories". MIT, Cambridge, MA: MIT 4.
Griffiths, A. M. (2005, September 18). Distempered Daubs: Or the Ethnographic Significance of Nineteenth Century Panoramas. "Revisiting the Hisory of Visual Anthropology". Oxford University: Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival.
Griffiths, A. M. (2005, March 4). Automatic Cinema and Illustrated Radio: Multimedia in the Museum. CUNY Graduate Center Film and Televison Studies Seminar Program. : CUNY Graduate Center.
Griffiths, A. M. (2004, November 30). "Spectacular Viewing: Medieval Churches, Religious Panoramas, and The Passion of the Spectator". Newman Library Tenth Year Anniversay/CUNY Month Talk. Baruch College, The City of New York: Newman Library, Baruch College.
Griffiths, A. M. (2004, July 31). . "The Film Program". Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Nederlands Film Museum Archive.
Griffiths, A. M. (2004, August 31). Science on Screen. Max Plank Insitute for the History of Sciences Summer Academy. Berlin, Germany: Max Plank Insitute for the History of Sciences Summer Academy.
Griffiths, A. M. (2003, July 31). Medieval Travelogues: Tapestry and Gothic Architecture as Precursors to Imax. Multi-Media Histories Conference. Exeter University, UK: Exeter University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2003, March 31). Time Traveling Imax Style. Travelogue Symposium. Dartmouth College: Jeffery Rouff.
Griffiths, A. M. (2002, June 30). The 360 Degree View and the Birth of Cinematic Illusion. Domitor, Internation Congress for the Study of Early Cinema. Montreal, Canada
Griffiths, A. M. (2002, May 31). New Media and the Natural History Museum: Contemporary Practices and Controversies. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Denver, Colorado
Griffiths, A. M. (2001, November 30). Anthropology's Encounter with Cinema: The Legacy fo Alfred Cort Haddon. "The Work of Culture in a Century of Media". Washington DC: American Anthropology Association (AAA) Annual Convention.
Griffiths, A. M. (2001, June 30). Panoramas and the Origins of the Cinematic Re-enactment. Screen Studies Conference. University of Glasgow, Scotland: University of Glasgow.
Griffiths, A. M. (2001, February 28). Introduced film "From the Pole to the Equator". Fascist cinema series. Casa Italiana, NYU, NYC: New York University.
Griffiths, A. M. (2001, May 31). Shivers Down Your Spine: Re-enactments and the Panoramic Effect. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Washington DC
Griffiths, A. M. (2000, June 30). 'The Largest Picture Ever Executed by Man': Panoramas and the Emergence of Large Screen and 360 Technologies. "Reception: Film, TV, Digital Culture,". Stockholm, Sweden: NorFA Research Seminar.
Griffiths, A. M. (2000, April 30). From Panorama to IMAX Screen: Large-screen Imaging Technologies and the Spectacular View. Society For Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Chicago
Griffiths, A. M. (2000, January 31). Rethinking Early Cinema: The Problem of the Visual in the History of Anthropology. "Culture and Media II: The Social Practice of Media". Department of Anthropology, New York University: Professor Faye Ginsburg.
Griffiths, A. M. (1999, October 31). Media Technology and Museum Display: A Century of Accommodation and Conflict. "Media in Transition: An International Conference". Boston: MIT.
Griffiths, A. M. (1999, July 31). Early Ethnographic Film. Film History Seminar, School of Visual Arts. New York: Film History Seminar, School of Visual Arts.
Griffiths, A. M. (1998, December 31). Iconophobia and the Problem of the Visual in the History of Anthropology. Center for Media and Journalism. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales.
Griffiths, A. M. (1998, December 31). Technology and Ethnography: Epistemologies of the Visual in the History of Anthropology. "Technologies of Moving Images". Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University.
Griffiths, A. M. (1998, July 31). . "The Eye of the Beholder". Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Nederlands Film Museum Archives.
Griffiths, A. M., & Latham, J. (1998, February 28). Early Cinema and Ethnic Identity in Harlem Before 1915. "Hollywood and it Spectators: The Reception of American Films,1895-1995". University College London: Commonwealth Fund Confernece in American History.
Griffiths, A. M. (1998, January 31). The Social Horizon of Early Ethnographic Film. Graduate lecture class in the Media, Culture and History Program. New York University: Department of Anthropology.
Griffiths, A. M. (1997, May 31). Celluloid Subjects: Science and Vision in Turn-of-the-Century Anthropology. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Ottawa, Canada: Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1996, August 31). Visualizing Science: Moving Pictures and Turn-of-the-Century Anthropology. "Visible Evidence IV: Strategies and Practices in Documentary Film and Video". University of Wales, Cardiff, UK: Center for Media and Journalism, University of Wales.
Griffiths, A. M. (1996, March 31). The Kinematograph in the Field: Early Cinema and Anthropology. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Dallas, Texas: Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1995, August 31). Making a Home for cinema in Anthropology: Early Film at the American Museum of Natual History. "Visible Evidence III: Strategies and Pratices in Documentary Film and Video". Cambridge: Harvard University.
Griffiths, A. M. (1995, June 30). 'Animated Geography': Moving Pictures, Anthropology and Turn-of-the-Century Amusements. "Celebrating 1895: An International Film Conference on Film Before 1920". Bradford, UK: National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.
Griffiths, A. M. (1995, May 31). Knowledge and Display: Proto-Cinema in the American Musuem of Natural History. International Communcations Association Conference. Albuquerque, New Mexico: International Communcations Association Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1994, June 30). Early Ethnographic Film and its Cultrural Contexts. "Cinema Turns 100: An International Conference Commemorating the Centennial of Commercial Motion Pictures. New York: Domitor.
Griffiths, A. M. (1994, December 31). . "Life and Work After Culture and Media". New York University: Culture and Media Program, New York University.
Griffiths, A. M. (1994, March 31). Discourses of Race and Ethnography in Early American Cinema. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. Syracuse, NY: Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993, October 31). 'Discourses of Nationalism' in Guru Dutt's Pyaasa. "National Cinemas Revisited". Athens: Ohio University Film Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993, October 31). Text, Context, and the Politics of Address. "National Cinemas Revisited". Athens: Ohio University Film Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993, June 30). Ethnography and the Politics of Audience Research. "Nordic Meeting on Ethnographic Films". Reykjavik, Iceland: Nordic Anthropological Film Association Fourth International Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993, June 30). Multiple Pleasures and Multiple Texts: Intertextuality in Popular Indian Cinema. Screen Studies Conference. Glasgow, Scotland: Screen Studies Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1993, January 31). Ethnography and the Politics of Audience Research. Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference. New Orleans
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, November 30). Teaching Indian Cinema. Training Educational Day. London: Museum of Moving Image.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, July 31). Pobol y Cwm: National and Cultural Identity in a welsh Language Soap Opera. Internaitonal Television Studies Conference. London: British Film Institute/University of London.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, March 31). Polol Y Cwm, Pedagogy, and Cultural Identities. British Film Institute Easter School. Cardiff, UK: BFI.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, June 30). Keynote Speaker on Teaching A-Level Media Studies. A-Level Media Studies Conference. London: British Film Institute at the National Theater.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, June 30). Popular Indian Cinema and Cultural Imperialism. A-Level Media Studies Conference. National Film Theatre, London: British Film Institute.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, April 30). A Critique of Anti-Racist Teaching Materials. Language: Power andPrejudice. Elm Park College, London: National Conference.
Griffiths, A. M. (1991, April 30). Language and Identities. Radio Interview. Bletchley, UK: BBC Radio 5.
Griffiths, A. M. (1990, November 30). M.A. Dissertation Research: A Case Study. Department of English, Media and Drama. London, UK: University of London Institute of Education.
Griffiths, A. M. (1990, July 31). Approaches to Teaching Popular Indian Cinema. "Popular Culture". London: Teaching Media.
Reviews
Griffiths, A. M. (2001,January 1). Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. Film Quarterly.
Griffiths, A. M. (2001,January 1). Entries on "Audiences" (3000 words); "Ethnography" (700 words); "Actualities," "Serial," "Series," and "Hypodermic Model". Critical Dictionary of Film and Television (London: Routledge, 2001).
Griffiths, A. M. (2000,March 1). Cambridge and the Torres Straits: Cententary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. American Anthropologist/ ew York Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Griffiths, A. M. (1999,January 1). Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video. Durham: Duke University Press.
Griffiths, A. M. (1997,January 1). Wales and Television. The Encyclopedia of Television (Chicago: Museum of Broadcast Communicaton/Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997).
Griffiths, A. M. (1990,January 1). Review of Media File. Media Education Initiatives .
Griffiths, A. M. (1989,June 1). S4C Media Education Pack. Independent Media .
Griffiths, A. M., & Gillespie, M. (1989,February 1). The Real World: Teaching Television. Independent Media .
Research Currently in Progess
Griffiths, A. M.(n.d.). In Progress.
Griffiths, A. M.(n.d.). "The Cinematic Imagination in Religious Art and Space". In Progress.
Book project with ongoing research and two chapters published in scholarly journals.
Griffiths, A. M.(n.d.). Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film. In Progress.
Book proposal sent to Columbia University press in November 2017. Book length manuscript analyzing the expedition film and its theoretical significance, contexts of production, exhibition, and institutional support, and cultural impact in the early twentieth mediascape.
Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
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New Worlds From the Margins Travel Ident | PSC CUNY 52 | 07/01/2021 | 06/30/2023 | 05/15/2021 | 9280 | Completed |
Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Flim | PSC-CUNY 50 | 07/01/2019 | 12/31/2020 | 04/13/2019 | 4530 | Completed |
"Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film" | PSC-CUNY 49 | 07/01/2018 | 06/30/2019 | 04/15/2018 | 5971 | Completed |
"Screens Behind Bars: Cinema, Prisons, and the Making of Modern America" Cinema, | PSC-CUNY 44 | 07/01/2013 | 06/30/2014 | 04/15/2013 | 3990 | Completed |
screens behind bars | PSC-CUNY 43 | 07/01/2012 | 06/30/2013 | 04/17/2012 | 3500 | Completed |
"Cinema Detritus: Film From the Margins" | PSC-CUNY 40 | 07/01/2009 | 06/30/2010 | 3990 | Completed | |
“Medieval Image-Making and Cinematic Special Effects: The Ethics of Images on the Edge” | PSC-CUNY 38 | 07/01/2007 | 06/30/2008 | 3990 | Completed | |
“Sámi Identity and Arctic Visual Studies: Cinema, Cartography, and Collective Memory” | PSC CUNY 53 | 07/01/2022 | 12/31/2023 | 04/15/2022 | 6000 | Funded - In Progress |
Collective Memory and Visual Communication: The Archival Legacy of the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup New Mexico | Waterhouse Family Institute | 01/01/2021 | 12/31/2022 | 09/04/2020 | 10000 | Funded - In Progress |
Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
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Mayer Fellowship | Huntington Library, Los Angeles | 2018 | A three month fellowship to conduct research for my book "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film," under contract withe Columbia University Press. |
American Council of Learned Societies Project Development Grant | American Council of Learned Societies | 2018 | To complete my book manuscript "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film," under contract with Columbia University Press.<br><br> |
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | 2018 | To complete my book manuscript "Nomadic Cinema: A Cultural Geography of the Expedition Film," under contract with Columbia University Press.<br><br> |
WSAS Summer Research Award | WSAS | 2015 | |
WSAS Summer Research Award | WSAS | 2014 | Award for research travel to archives in Los Amgeles to complete "Screens Behind Bars" |
WSAS Summer Research Award | WSAS | 2013 | International research to London. |
Baruch College-Rubin Museum Fellowship | Baruch College-Rubin Museum | 2012 | Collaborative research grant for curriculum development integrating RMA collection into an existing Baruch College course (shared with two other Baruch College faculty). Declined |
Baruch College-Rubin Museum Summer Planning Grant | Baruch College/Rubin Museum of Art, NYC | 2012 | $1,500 to research ideas for curriculum development integrating RMA collection into an existing Baruch College course. |
NEH Summer Stipend | NEH | 2012 | Summer research funding to complete a scholarly project. |
Best Edited Anthology | Society for Cinema and Media Studies | 2012 | Book chapter, “Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s,” in Marsha Orgeron, Devin Orgeron, Dan Streible, eds., Learning with the Lights Off (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 124-44, winner of SCMS Best Edited Anthology Award. |
Baruch College Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement | Baruch College | 2012 | Annual recognition for scholarly and artistic achievement; every year from 2004-2012 |
Best Edited Anthology | Society for Cinema and Media Studies | 2012 | “’A Moving Picture of the Heavens’: Planetarium Space Shows as Useful Cinema,” in Charles Acland and Haidee Wasson, eds., Useful Cinema (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), pp. 230-59. Book Won Honorable Mention for SCMS Best Edited Anthology Award: |
President's Distinguished Scholarship Award | Baruch College | 2011 | $1,500 prize awarded for distinguished research (only recipient in 2011. |
Best Book Cover | Bookbinders Guild | 2008 | Design award for cover of "Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View" |
Honorable Mention | Katherine S. Kovacs Society for Cinema Studies Best Published Essay Writing Award | 2004 | Essay entitled '"Shivers Down Your Spine': Panoramas, Illusionism and the Origins of Cinematic Reenactment" Screen, Vol.44, No.1 (Spring 2003): Second Prize |
Special Commendation | Krazna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award 2003 | 2003 | Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture. (Prize of $1800) The book was one of three winners selected in the Culture and History category out of more than 300 entries. |
Katherine S. Kovacs Award | Society for Cinema Studies Best Published | 2003 | (Wondrous Difference). Prize Awarded annually by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies |
NEH Summer Stipend | NEH | 2003 | ($5000) for Shivers Down Your Spine |
President's Distinguished Scholarship Award | Baruch College | 2003 | $1000 prize awarded to one or two Baruch College faculty for distinguished research. |
Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship | Baruch College | 2002 | '"Shivers Down Your Spine': Panoramas, Muesums and the History of Interactive Technologies ($6300) |
Felix Gross Endowment Award ($500) | CUNY | 2000 | $500 prize awarded for outstanding research by a junior CUNY faculty member |
Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship ($3500) | Baruch College | 1999 | |
Honorable Mention | Katherine S. Kovacs Society for Cinema Studies Best Published Essay Writing Award | 1999 | "'To the World the World We Show': Early Travelogues as Filmed Ethnography" Film History, John Libbey & Company Ltd., |
Honorable Mention | the Katherine S. Kovacs Society for Cinema Studies Best Published Essay Writing Award | 1999 | "'To the World the World We Show': Early Travelogues as Filmed Ethnography" Film History, Vol.11, No.3 pp.282-307 |
Sixteenth Annual Society for Cinema Studies Dissertation Award ($1000) | 1999 | $1000 prize awarded by the Society for Cinema Studies to the best doctoral dissertation defended in 1998. | |
Jay Leyda ($100) | Department of Cinema Studies Tisch School of Arts, New York University | 1998 | Award given to one graduating doctoral Student from the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU |
One Year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Centre for Cross-Cultural Research | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | 1998 | Declined because offered tenure-track position at Baruch College, CUNY. |
Nominated Ph.D Representative for Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts Convocation, New York University, Carnegie Hall | 1998 | Marched holding GSAS doctoral flag at the convocation ceremony at Carnegie Hall, NYC. |
Woodrow Wilson Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($15000) | 1996 | $12,000 one year fellowship to complete writing of dissertation. | |
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean's Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($1200) | New York University | 1995 | One of 25 awarded to entire GSAS doctoral student. |
Teaching Assistantship | Department of Cinema Studies, New York University | 1993 | |
Research Assistantship | Department of Cinema Studies, New York University | 1992 |
College
Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
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Communications Studies Department Search Committees (for every search since 1998) | Committee Member | Present | |
Department "Review" Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Executive MA in Corporate Communication Exploratory Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Educational Policy Committee of the Baruch College Faculty Senate | Committee Member | Present | |
Baruch College Honors Thesis Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
WC2 World Cities/World Class Universities | Committee Member | Present | |
Teaching Observation Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Speech Department Assessment Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Communications Studies Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Film Minor Programming | Committee Member | Present | |
Film Minor Committee | Committee Chair | Present | |
Communications Studies Department Strategic Planning Group | Committee Member | Present | |
Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
Faculty Fellow in Global Strategies | Position created by Vice Provost for Global Strategies | 2/28/2018 | |
WSAS Graduate Affairs | Committee Member | 6/30/2015 | |
WSAS Strategic Plan | Committee Member | 12/31/2013 | |
WSAS Reassigned Time and Travel Committee | Committee Chair | 9/30/2011 | |
WSAS Reassigned Time and Travel Committee | Committee Member | 9/30/2010 | |
P & B | Committee Member | 8/31/2010 | |
Fine and Performing Arts Search Committee | Committee Member | 4/30/2010 | |
WSAS Reassigned Time and Travel Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2007 | |
Graduate Affairs Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2007 | |
Speech Department Search Committees for faculty position in Corporate Communications | Committee Member | 12/31/2006 | |
Basic Course | Director | 12/31/2006 | |
Baruch College Five Year Plan Task Force on Visibility | Committee Member | 12/31/2005 | |
Freshman Text Committee | Committee Member | 12/31/2002 | |
Student Disciplinary Committee | Committee Chair | 12/31/2002 | |
Basic Course | Director | 12/31/2000 | |
Speech Department Search Committees for faculty position in Corporate Communications | Committee Member | 12/31/2000 | |
"New technology as a Learning Tool: Interactive Media and the Museum" at "Teaching and Technology 3" Conference | Led break-out workshop | 3/3/2000 | |
Business communication (B.A.) Program | Committee Member | 12/31/1999 | |
Basic course Committee (Department of English and Speech) | Committee Member | 12/31/1999 | |
Speech Department Faculty Mentoring Program | Committee Member | 12/31/1999 | |
"Getting Your Department On-line: Trials and Tribulations" at "Teaching and Technology 2" Conference | Co-led break-out workshop | 3/19/1999 |
University
Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
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Doctoral Dissertation in Theatre, Art History, and English | Committee Member | 3/1/2006 | Present |
MALS Thesis Advisor | Present | ||
Film Studies Advisory Committee | Committee Member | 4/1/2009 | Present |
Ph.D. Program in Theatre Faculty | Committee Member | 9/1/2004 | Present |
Performing Arts Scholarship Panel | Committee Member | 1/1/2001 | 12/31/2006 |
Professional
Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
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WC2 World Cities/World Class Universities | Attendee, Meeting | NY | United States | 4/1/2013 | Present |
Public
Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
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College of Staten Island | External tenure reviewer for CUNY | Present | ||||
Duke University Press; University of Washington Press | Manuscript reviewer | Present | ||||
"Odyssey: A Daily Talk Show of Ideas," Chicago Public Radio | Guest Speaker | 10/1/2003 | Present | |||
Cinema Journal, US journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies | Editorial board member | 1/1/2003 | Present | |||
Early Popular Visual Culture | Editorial board member | 1/1/2000 | Present | |||
BBC4 documentary on the Albert Khan Archive | Consultant | 11/1/2006 | 11/30/2006 | |||
"Odyssey: A Daily Talk Show of Ideas," Chicago Public Radio | Guest Speaker | 4/6/2004 | 4/6/2004 | |||
Matteo Particolo panorama exhibit at the New Historical Society | Consultant | 6/1/2001 | 6/30/2001 | |||
Amersham and Wycombe College Theatrical Society | Director | 1/1/1991 | 12/31/1992 | |||
Amersham and Wycombe College | Course Modularization Leader | 1/1/1991 | 12/31/1992 | |||
Amersham and Wycombe College | Program Coordinator | 1/1/1991 | 12/31/1992 | |||
Media and Performing Arts Program, Amersham and Wycombe College | Equal Opportunities Coordinator | 1/1/1991 | 12/31/1992 | |||
Television and Theatre, Amersham and Wycombe College | Course Coordinator | 1/1/1991 | 12/31/1992 | |||
Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade | Director | 7/1/1992 | 7/31/1992 | |||
Elm Park College | TV Studio Design Coordinator | 1/1/1989 | 12/31/1991 | |||
Elm Park College | Head of Media Studies and Theatre Arts Course | 1/1/1989 | 12/31/1991 |