Teaching Areas and Research Interests
culture; sociology of knowledge; American racial history; media

Key Publications
“Ethnosympathy: Reflections on an American Dilemma,” Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice (Roger Friedland & John Mohr, eds., 2003); “Nineteenth Century U.S. Religious Crisis and the Sociology of Music” Poetics, (2002); “Historicizing the American Cultural Turn: The Slave Narrative,” European Jouranl of Cultural Studies (2001); Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation (1999).

Contact Information
Office:
2724 Ellison
Email:
cruz@soc.ucsb.edu

Academic Credentials
Associate Professor
PhD, UC Berkeley, 1986

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