Professor Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. He writes and teaches about media industries and the history of movies, radio, television, and advertising in the United States. He recently received the Library of Congress Coca-Cola Fellowship for the Study of Advertising and World Culture and is researching the activities of advertising agencies and corporate sponsors, who used radio and television to promote a consumer society in America during the years 1930-1960.

Professor Malitsky received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2005.  His teaching and research interests include documentary history, theory, and criticism; non-fiction film and nation-building; intersections between documentary, ethnographic film, and the avant-garde; early Soviet cinema; Cuban cinema; West African cinema; realism; and sports media.  He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet, Yugoslav, and Cuban Nations.  Professor Malitsky is affiliated faculty with the Russian and Eastern European Institute (REEI) and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).

Yeidy M. Rivero’s research and teaching interests include global television/media, US ethnic minority and media, race theory, Latin American and Latino media, and African Diaspora studies.  Her work examines how national and transnational cultural identities are constructed and negotiated through media discourses about race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender.  A recipient of a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Professor Rivero’s current major research project explores the ways television in Cuba was utilized as a commercial-national medium to rearticulate discourses of modernity during the years preceding the Cuban Revolution.  She is a faculty affiliate in American Studies, the Center for Latin American and Spanish Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, and Latino Studies

Ted Striphas is director of Film & Media Studies.  His primary research interest areas include: media history, theory, and criticism; cultural studies; Marxism; and the philosophy of communication and culture. His book project, which is tentatively titled The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control, traces the ways in which books--in conjunction with television, digital computers, and a host of related technical and social processes--have been integral to the making of a connected, modern consumer culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, and how they remain at the forefront of its unmaking and remaking today. He also has a strong interest in the politics of intellectual properties and the institutional formations of cultural studies.  His teaching interests include: media history, theory, analysis, and criticism; cultural studies; Marxism; and the philosophy of communication and culture.

Professor Waller received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978. His work covers a range of topics in film studies, including the history of exhibition and distribution, American popular movie genres, and New Zealand cinema. He is currently working on "Movies on the Road," a study of travelling film exhibitions in the 1930s and 1940s and on "Japan-in-America," a comprehensive look at the representation of Japan in the United States, 1890-1915.  Professor Waller spent May-June 2005 at Nankai University, Tianjin, China, as part of a faculty exchange program. He has also been a Fulbright scholar at Waikato University in New Zealand (1993) and a participant in the Appalachian-Rome Program at the University of Rome, La Sapienza (2002).  He received a grant from the Toshiba Foundation to fund "Japan-in-America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," a multi-media exhibit scheduled to open at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures on the Indiana University at Bloomington campus in March 2005.

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