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Laura André
Laura André received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied the history of photography and critical theory with Dr. Carol Mavor. André's dissertation, Lunar Nation: the Moon in American Visual Culture, 1957-1972, investigates the relationship between space-age visual culture and other new frontiers of the 1960s, such as radical feminism, black nationalism, gay and lesbian liberation, the anti-war and economic justice movements and the "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" counterculture.
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Laura André, assistant professor of art history
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The wide, cultural studies-based approach to this project, which is currently being transformed into a book, exemplifies André's interest in studying how anxieties about difference—race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality—factor in both the production and interpretation of visual art.
At UNM, André teaches three survey courses in the history of photography, covering the 19th-century, early 20th-century and post-1950 periods. This array of courses, together with UNM's outstanding studio program and museum collection, sets the standard for photo history studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and remains unmatched by other universities. In addition to these surveys, André will offer issue-based classes and seminars on photography and visual culture. These courses, of which many will be cross-listed with other departments, will incorporate a range of contemporary interests and methods and fulfill today's academic demand for a greater interdisciplinary approach in both research and teaching.
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Ray Hernández-Durán
Ray Hernández-Durán, originally from San Antonio, Texas, specializes in Colonial Latin America, primarily New Spain. He completed a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and a bachelor of fine arts degree in art history and studio art at the University of Texas at Austin. He learned his master of arts degree in African art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a thesis on Haitian Vodun sacred enclosures and his doctorate at the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Tom Cummins, now the Colonial scholar at Harvard.
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Ray Hernández-Durán
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He has received numerous awards, including two Title VI F.L.A.S. grants and two Fulbright-Hays fellowships, with which he traveled to Nigeria and Mexico for research.
He also took some time from his studies to work in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he curated three exhibitions, published, lectured and actively participated in the expansion and cataloging of the collection.
Hernández-Durán previously taught at several Chicago area universities, including the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the CFA, Hernández-Durán is teaching a survey of Spanish Colonial art and a special topics course on painters and painting in Mexico City, 1560-1821. He is also working on several articles and papers, cataloguing entries for a forthcoming exhibition of colonial art of northern New Spain and participating in the consolidation of an exchange program with La Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico.
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Steven Feld
Stephen Feld, assistant professor recipient of the of ethnomusicology prestigious John D. and Catherine T. Mac-Arthur Foundation Fellowship. His anthropology of sound research involves intersections of music, linguistics, acoustic ecology and media studies.
Feld received his bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from Hofstra University on Long Island and his Ph.D. from the Indiana University Department of Anthropology. He has taught at several universities across the United States, in Norway and in Australia. Feld's most recent appointment was as a professor of music and anthropology at Columbia University. Here at UNM, he will teach music and anthropology courses, including several that will be cross-listed in both departments. This tall he is teaching "The Anthropology of World Beat."
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Steven Feld, assistant professor of ethnomusicology |
| His main ethnographic project since the mid-1970s, and the focus of many of his print and sound publications, concerns the acoustemology (acoustic epistemology) of the Kaluli people of the Bosavi rainforest of Papua, New Guinea. His seminal book. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression, is a study of the relationship of nature to musical rituals in Papua and won the J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology in 1991. Since the mid-1980s he also has developed a second research project on music globalization, schizophonia and the emergence of 'world music.' His Music Grooves: Essays and Dialogues, written in collaboration with Charles Keil, won the Chicago Folklore Prize in 1995. |
Donna Jewell
Donna Jewell has been selected as the new head of dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance. She received her master of fine arts degree in dance and choreography from New York University's Tisch School for the Arts in 1993, and has been performing, choreographing and teaching in Europe and the United States for the past 10 years. As artistic director of Jewell & Company Dance Theater, she currently concentrates on site-specific works, producing both live shows and video projects. She also serves as rehearsal director and choreographer for Lawine Torren in Austria, a company specializing in interdisciplinary theater pieces involving large machinery such as tanks, trucks, helicopters, snowmobiles, motorcycles and airplanes combined with performances by actors and dancers in outdoor settings.
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Soloist Donna Jewell, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and head of the Dance Program, performs on a dragon jet in "Wildnis Luft," a dance theater piece performed at the International Air Show, Zeltweg, Austria, June 2000.
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She performs as a guest actress with ONNO Theater of Vienna and contributes as a free-lance dance critic to Attitude Magazine. Upcoming projects for Jewell & Company Dance Theater include an interdisciplinary piece entitled JUMP, a trilingual dance theater work with performances planned for Vienna, Barcelona and Albuquerque.
Jewell's goals for the UNM dance program are varied. She plans to create a choreography video lab outfitted with advanced audiovisual equipment, which will allow dance students to learn choreography for the camera and to develop a more complete portfolio of work. She would like to develop opportunities for students to engage in site-specific, collaborative dance theater pieces and establish a student outreach group to perform and give workshops at local public schools. She will continue to organize student performances at various festivals throughout the world, from the American College Dance Festival this coming March at the University of Colorado to the New Prague Dance Festival in April in Prague, Czech Republic.
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