Camilla Fojas
School Director and Professor,
School of Social Transformation
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Camilla Fojas is Foundation Professor and director of the School of Social Transformation. Her research explores mediated cultures of the Americas and the Pacific through the axes of empire, security and race within the context of the expanding borders the United States and with a specific focus on the U.S.-Mexico border. She has published or co-edited nine books on these topics, most recently "Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier" (NYU Press, 2021).
Education
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature (film and cultural studies of the Americas), New York University 1999
- Master’s degree. Comparative Literature, New York University 1996
- Bachelor’s degree. Comparative Literature and Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz 1993
Courses
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AMS 599 | Thesis |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AMS 599 | Thesis |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SST 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| AMS 502 | Amer Studies: Theory & Method |