Jacqueline Urla
Jacqueline Urla, Professor of Anthropology, teaches visual anthropology with special interests in ethnographic film and indigenous media. She conducts research on minority politics, social movements, historical memory, and the semiotics of resistance. Her career in visual anthropology was launched in 1992 when she worked on an interdisciplinary project funded by a Getty Senior Research Grant exploring the representation of whiteness in native peoples' art, material culture, and visual media. She served as Interim Director of the Film Studies Program (2006-2008) and curated two editions of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival: “Encuentros: New Cinema of Latin America and Spain” (2007) and “Africanicities: Conflict and Community” (2008) featuring the visit of actor/activist Danny Glover.