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Jonathan Katz
Associate Professor of Practice, History of Art and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Jonathan Katz is a founding figure in the world of queer art history with decades of work devoted to research on gender, sexuality, and desire, including many foundational contributions to queer studies in the visual arts. His research spans from the late 20th century into the present, with a focus on the United States along with Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Katz has founded and chaired a number of major non-profit queer organizations, including the Harvey Milk Institute in 1995. His published works include Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, co-authored with Moira Roth, and the anthology Art AIDS America. Katz’s latest international exhibition, "The First Homosexuals," analyzes art created in the initial 50 years after the term “homosexual” was first coined.
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Rahul Mukerjee
Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies and Associate Professor of English
Rahul Mukherjee’s work probes the relationship between media, politics, and technology, and their role in alternative futures. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, media theory, and science studies, Mukherjee has written about everything from database management systems and mobile phones to Bollywood thrillers and the tragic fallout of chemical contamination. His 2020 book, Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty, delves into debates around radiation-emitting technologies like cell antennas and nuclear reactors. Mukherjee’s forthcoming 2026 book, Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution, closely examines how telecom companies in India have reached a surprising market of mobile phone users. He additionally serves on the editorial advisory boards for the Journal of Environmental Media, Media+Environment, and Platforms & Society.
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Whitney Trettien
Associate Professor of English and Faculty Director, Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Whitney Trettien looks to the past to gain a better understanding of our contemporary media environment. Her work explores the history of literary technologies, including how early printed books and library classification systems ultimately led us to a digital world filled with a dizzying amount of content. Trettien’s first book, Cut/Copy/Paste, probes London’s early print trade and how paper media was often reassembled to create bespoke works, laying the groundwork for digital scholarship and publishing generations later. She is also involved in Printing in Prisons, a collaboration looking at the history of how printing presses have both benefited from incarcerated labor and given those communities access to powerful means of expression. Trettien is currently working on a second book looking at early histories of computing.
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