Search for people, departments, or email addresses.
Arts Division
History of Art/Visual Culture
Professor
Faculty
Feminist Studies Department
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Latin American & Latino Studies
History of Consciousness Department
Regular Faculty
Activism
Art Theory
Contemporary Art
Feminist Theory
Aesthetics
American Studies
Chicana/o Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Critical Theory
Digital Arts
Porter College Academic
D208 Porter College
D208 Porter College
See faculty webpage
Porter Faculty Services
BA, Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven
PhD, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jennifer Gonzalez writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space (exhibition space, public space, virtual space) by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender.
Contemporary art in the U.S. and Europe, history of the museum, activist art since 1960, history of photography, theories of representation, feminist and critical race theory.
Books:
Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology
https://www.dukeupress.edu/chicano-and-chicana-art
Pepon Osorio
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/pepa3n-osorio
Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art
This campus directory is the property of the University of California at Santa Cruz. To protect the privacy of individuals listed herein, in accordance with the State of California Information Practices Act, this directory may not be used, rented, distributed, or sold for commercial purposes. For more details, please see the university guidelines for assuring privacy of personal information in mailing lists and telephone directories. If you have any questions please contact the ITS Support Center.