Akesha Horton

November 2010 - July 2011

Email: Akesha.Horton@uts.edu.au

I am a doctoral student in Michigan State University's (MSU) Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Educational Policy, housed in the College of Education. My research interest is the intersection of global and digital citizenship education.  My research has been based in urban areas throughout the United States.  I examine how youth engage with popular culture such as music and games, and make meaning from their experience.   While at MSU, I served as a technology consultant for my department, as well as managed the content management system for the College of Education.  I also have worked as a research assistant in various programs involving urban youth.  I have an MSc in Education - Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University and over 15 years of professional experience in the area of educational technology, most recently at Howard University, where I served as Coordinator of Web Design and Web Based Instruction for their Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  In May I earned a Fulbright-mtvU fellowship to do research in Sydney, Australia, during the 2010-11 school year.  This research involves learning how youth learn to be global and digital citizens through their use of popular culture; specifically hip-hop.

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen

November - December 2010

Email: USCJ@asb.dk

Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen is a PhD student affiliated to the Knowledge Communication research group at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Her PhD project explores the unstable concept of knowledge asymmetries – and how they appear, eclipse and are destroyed in moments of professional knowledge communication.
Ushma has an MSc in Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University and has earlier worked with museums and development NGOs in Tanzania, Nepal and Denmark.

Ushma will give a talk as part of the TfC lunchtime series on the 10 November:

Knowledge asymmetries: Technologies of professional communication?

Dr Gaia Giuliani

July 2008 - December 2011

Email: maquinaria2@gmail.com

Gaia presented some of her work in a TfC talk on the 24 July 2008.
Contact: Transforming Cultures for more information

She gave two more seminars in 2010 on the Idea of Whiteness in Australia and Whiteness in Italy in 2010 and she convened a Round Table on Settler Colonialism in May 2010. Please view our archived events page for information on these events by Gaia.

Gaia Giuliani is a Scholar in Postcolonial Studies and Political Theory at the Department of 'Politica Istituzioni Storia' at the University of Bologna. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies at UTS in 2007 and has been an International Associate with TfC since 2008. Amongst her publications are, the book Beyond curiosity. James Mill e la nascita del governo coloniale britannico in India [James Mill and the creation of the colonial government in India], Aracne, Roma 2008, several essays on the colonial imaginary entailed in British imperial experience, on the contemporary debate on race and racism, and on Fascist biopolitics. She is a member of the editorial board of the first Italian review on Cultural Studies "Studi Culturali". Her research field includes Gender and Feminist theories: she has published The Body, Sexuality, Precarity ("Feminist Review", 2007, n. 87 and "Posse", June 2008, n. 8), Donne Politica Istituzioni. Uno spazio "politico" in sé [Women, Politics, Institutions: a political space in itself] ("Inchiesta" 2008), and several other articles on sexuality and new queer imaginaries in the Italian newspaper "Liberazione" and in the "Quaderni d'altri tempi" on-line review (Sept. 2008). She has recently translated the American philosopher Judith Butler's Subjects of desire (Laterza, Roma 2009) into Italian.

In 2010 Gaia edited Tutti i colori del bianco. Prospettive teoriche e sguardi storici sulla whiteness (Studi Culturali n.1, pp. 79-160, http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/riviste/scheda_fascicolo.php?isbn=13661&ilmulino=) and published Fantasie di bianchezza nell'Australia federale (G. Giuliani (ed.) (2010), pp. 141-160).

Dr Tressa Berman

Email: borderzone@earthlink.net

Tressa Berman is a cultural anthropologist (PhD University of California, LA), curator and arts policy consultant. She is Founding Director of BorderZone Arts, Inc., an international community-based arts organisation based in San Francisco, and affiliated with the Globalism Institute, RMIT. She is former faculty of Arizona State University, and has held various teaching and research positions in the US. Tressa's research interests include contemporary art and globilisation, Indigenous intellectual property rights and cultural heritage policy. She is currently Project Director of Cultural Copy: Visual Conversations on Indigenous Arts and Cultural Appropriation, a multiple site, internationally traveling exhibition and conference project which launched at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, in conjunction with Common Ground Conferences of Australia, with which she is currently developing an international arts conference project. In addition to numerous articles, her books include Circle of Goods: Women, Work and Welfare in a Reservation Community (SUNY Press, 2003); and No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession (in preparation for UNSW Press). 

Past visiting scholars