About

Macarena Gomez Barris

Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity

Contact Information
E-mail: gomezbar@email.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3600
Office: KAP 352

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Biographical Sketch
I work from the discipline of sociology, while also at the intersections of the interdisciplinary fields fo memory studies, political violence and its effects, race and urban studies.
 

Education
B.A. 'Third World Studies', University of California, San Diego, 6/1992
M.A. Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 6/1997
M.A. Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 6/1999
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 6/2004
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz, 01/01/2001-01/01/2004  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Macarena Gomez-Barris' research interests focus on memory, culture, and power. Her book Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, examines the memory politics of representation and culture in the aftermath of Chile's dictatorship (UC Press 2009). Her new project elaborates a discussion of cultural memory and social inequality by analyzing representations of indigenous cosmologies and ideologies in the Americas. One aspect of this project analyzes the global spiritual tourist industry, particularly in Cuzco, Peru.
 

Research Specialties
Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity. Research interests include: Political Violence and Its Aftermath; Memory; Culture; Latina/o and Latin American Studies; Race and; Representation.
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
Advancing Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship (USC), Macarena Gomez-Barris, $19,850, 2008-2009   
Democracy and Villa Grimaldi, Chile (Woodrow Wilson and Ford Foundation), Macarena Gomez-Barris, $10,000, 09/01/2006-06/01/2007  
Plaza Mexico - Politics and Religion (CRCC - USC), Macarena Gomez-Barris, Clara Irázabal, $35,000, 09/01/2005-03/01/2007  
Latina/o New Urbanism (Urban Initiative), Macarena Gómez-Barris, Clara Irázabal, $68,000, 2005-2006   
 

USC Funding
Visions and Voices. Cecilia Vicuna's Performance Art: Organized Public Performance, $11,000, 2007-2008   
 

Publications

Book
Gomez Barris, M., Gray, H. (2009). Making the Nation. Making the Nation: Sociological Framings.
Gomez Barris, M. (2009). Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile. (UC Press, Ed.). Berkeley and Los Angeles.
 

Book Chapter
Gomez Barris, M. (2007). Doubling 9/11: Ariel Dorfman and Isabel Allende's Exilic Politics. (Vol. n/a). Making the Nation: Sociological Framings.
Gomez Barris, M. (2007). Memories from the South: Moyenei Valdes' Sonic Performances. (Vol. NA). Transnational Feminisms in the Americas.
Gomez Barris, M. (2007). Transnational Communities of Affinity: Patricio Guzmán’s The Pinochet Case. (Vol. NA). New York.: Sites of Production, History, Film and Cultural Citizenship/Routledge.
 

Journal Article
Gomez Barris, M. (2007). Torture Sees and Speaks: Guillermo Núñez’s Art of Torture in Chile’s Democratic Transition. ContraCorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature. Vol. 5 (1), pp. pp. 186-213.
Gomez Barris, M., Irazabal, C. (2007). Bounded Tourism: Immigrant Politics, Consumption and Traditions at Plaza Mexico. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change. Vol. 5 (3), pp. pp. 186-213.
Gomez Barris, M., Gray, H. (2006). Michael Jackson and Post-Op Disasters: Straddling Race, Sexuality and the Nuclear Family. Television and New Media. Vol. NA
Gomez Barris, M. (2005). Two 9/11s in a Lifetime: Chilean Displacement, Art and Terror. Latino Studies/palgraves. pp. p.97-112.
 

Honors and Awards
Center for Religion and Civic Culture Fellow, 2005-2006  
Urban Initiative Grant Fellow, 2005  
 

Service to the Profession

Other Service to the Profession
Editorial Board, American Quarterly, 2007-2008   
 
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