B.A., M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., Harvard University
Scholarly Interests
Trauma/PTSD, Media and popular culture as informal education, Youth cultures and subcultures, Film theory. Gender and transgender, Military technologies.
Selected Publications
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth (Lexington Press).
Resistance to youth and popular culture (Film, Politics, and Education)
Smart weapons and military TV (Technoscience and Cyberculture)
Cultural studies and schools (Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology)
“Bodies In Motion: Images of Women in Contemporary Film & Video,” the latest event in Kelvin Sealey’s and Professor John Broughton’s Project Citizen, brought renowed feminists Gloria Steinem, bell hooks, and Hyun Kyung Chung to the Columbia campus to talk about images of women in the media.
As a young boy, John Broughton lived in a little village 15 miles south of London that, he recalls, "had no cinema." Yet, his parents were the organizers of a community film society in that village and, as a result he says, "I grew up as a Cinema Paradiso projector boy."
The Matrix, to Cornel West, is about learning to hold yourself accountable. Princeton scholar and actor in the Wachowski brothers Matrix film trilogy, Cornel West came to share his insights about film, race and society with Teachers College.
Since President Levine's 1999 call for an institution, "in which there is no 'us and them,'" (Report of the Summer 1999 Teachers College Task force on Diversity and Community), the faculty and staff have been attempting to create a working community committed to supporting diversity.
A recent episode of the animated television show South Park mirrored the much-publicized Terry Schiavo quality-of-life debate. Featuring Kenny "the character known for dying during each episode" it aired on the day of Schiavo's death. In today's culture, is this brand of television entertainment a legitimate part of education?
Joe Gilchrist, Building Supervisor for TC's Seth Low faculty dormitory and union shop steward for employees of the College who are members of 32B/32J, and Steve Weinberg, longtime Director of Budgets, passed away in May.