Advancing excellence through faculty diversity

Jemma DeCristo

Education:

B.A., Vassar College, English and Africana Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness

Dissertation:

Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity

Thesis Advisor:

David Marriott, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic:

Black Sounds and their Fugitive Lives in Capture

Mentor:

Dennis Childs, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Current Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, University of California, Davis