Lisa Parks, Ph.D.
Department
of Film and Media Studies
University
of California-Santa Barbara
Santa
Barbara, CA 93106 USA parks@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu
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Academic Positions
2002 Ð present, Associate
Professor, 1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Film and Media Studies,
University of California at Santa Barbara.
2006-2007. Research Fellow.
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.
Fall 2005, Faculty Fellow in
Residence, UC Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine
2005-present, Faculty
Research Director, Center for Information Technology and Society, UCSB
Spring 2003, Visiting
Professor, Critical Studies Division. School of Cinema and Television,
University of Southern California.
March 2003, Visiting
Professor, Institutum Studiorum Humanitas (Ljubljana Graduate School of the
Humanities) Slovenia
1998, Lecturer, WomenÕs
Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education
Ph.D. 1998, MA 1993,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Communication Arts, Media and
Cultural Studies Program. Distributed Minor: Technology and Culture.
.
B.A. with high honors, 1990.
University of Montana-Missoula. Combined major in Political Science and History
with emphasis in International Studies and Comparative Politics.
Publications
Mixed Signals: Media
Technologies and Cultural Geography,
manuscript in progress.
Cultures in Orbit:
Satellites and the Televisual.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Planet TV: A Global
Television Reader, co-edited with
Shanti Kumar, New York University Press, 2003.
Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, co-edited with Elana Levine,
Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
ÒOrbital Performers and
Satellite Translators: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,Ó Quarterly
Review of Film and Video, forthcoming
2006.
ÒPlotting the Personal:
Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.Ó Ecumene: A Journal of
Cultural Geographies (London UK),
vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 209-222. Expanded version translated into German and
published in catalogue of Geography and the Politics of Mobility art exhibition, Generali Foundation Gallery, Vienna,
Austria, 2003.
ÒSatellite Views of
Srebrenica: Televisuality and the Politics of Witnessing,Ó Social Identities, 7:4, 2001, pp. 585-611. Short version reprinted in ATHENA, winter 2002.
ÒAs the Earth Spins: NBCÕs Wide
Wide World and Live Global Television
in the 1950s.Ó Screen, vol. 42, no. 4, winter 2001.
ÒAfrica on Camera: Televised
Video Footage and Aerial Imaging of the Rwandan Refugee Crisis,Ó co-authored
with Jo Ellen Fair, Africa Today,
vol. 48, 2001.
ÒCracking
Open the Set: Television Repair and Tinkering with Gender, 1949-1955,Ó Television
and New Media, vol. 1, no. 3, August
2000. Reprinted in Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s,Ó Janet Thumim, ed. London: IB Tauris, 2001.
ÒWatching the ÔWorking GalsÕ:
Fifties Sitcoms and the Repositioning of Women in Postwar American Culture,Ó Critical
Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture, Winter 1999.
ÒTechnology in the Twilight:
A Cultural History of the First Earth Satellite,Ó Humanities and Technology
Review, fall 1997.
ÒWhere the Cable Ends:
Television in Fringe Areas.Ó In Cable Visions, Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas, eds. New York:
New York University Press, forthcoming 2006.
ÒFalling Apart: Electronics
Salvaging, Junkyard Wars, and the
Global Media Economy.Ó In Residual Media, Charles Acland, ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
forthcoming 2006.
ÒPostwar Footprints:
Satellite and Wireless Stories in Slovenia and Croatia.Ó In B-Zone: Becoming
Europe and Beyond, Anselm Franke, ed.
Barcelona: ACTAR Press, 2005.
ÒElvis Goes Global: Aloha!
Live Via Satellite and
Music/Tourism/Television.Ó Music Television, Jason Middleton and Roger Beebee, eds. Durham: Duke
University Press, forthcoming.
ÒPlanet Patrol: Satellite
Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security.Ó In Rethinking
Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror,' eds. Patrice Petro and Andrew Martin, Rutgers University
Press, forthcoming. (German
translation in Mediale Identitþtsrþume. Brigitte Hipfl, Elisabeth Klaus and Uta Scheer, eds. Bielefeld:
transcript Verlag, 2005.)
ÒKinetic Screens:
Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface,Ó in Media/Space: Place, Scale
and Culture in a Media Age,Ó eds.
Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy, London: Routledge, 2004, 37-57.
ÒSatellite and Cyber
Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth,Ó Visual Culture Reader 2.0, Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. New York and London:
Routledge, 2003. Translated into Dutch and reprinted in Journal of Dutch
Gender Studies, 2003.
ÒLog On: The Oxygen Media Research Project,Ó with Anna Everett and
Constance Penley. In Digi-textualities, eds. John Caldwell and Anna Everett, London:
Routledge, 2003.
ÒFlexible Microcasting:
Gender, Generation and Television and Internet Convergence.Ó In The
Persistence of Television: From Console to Computer, Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson, eds. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2004.
ÒBrave New Buffy: Rethinking ÔTV Violence.ÕÓ In Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, Industry
and Fans, Mark Jancovich and James Lyons, eds. London: British Film
Institute, 2003.
ÒUS Television AbroadÓ and
ÒBaywatch.Ó In The Television History Book, ed. Michele Hilmes. London: British Film Institute, 2002.
ÒGender and US Television.Ó
In The Television Studies Book,
ed. Toby Miller. London: British Film Institute, 2002.
ÒOur World, Satellite Televisuality and The Fantasy of Global
Presence.Ó In Planet TV: A Global Television Reader, Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, eds. New York: New York
University Press, 2002.
ÒSatellitenbilder Suchen,Ó in
Suchbilder, eds. Wolfgang Ernst,
Stefan Heidenreich and Ute Holl, Bildarchive der Gegenwart, Berlin (Kadmos
Kulturverlag) 2003.
ÒSatellite Rhythms: Channel
V, Asian Music Video and Transnational Gender,Ó Rock Over the Edge: Transformations of Popular Music, Denise Fuller, Roger Bebee, et al, eds.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.
ÒSatellites and Visuality,Ó Falsche Evidenzen. Visuelle Kultur und Politik
der Sichtbarkeit (False
Evidences. Visual Culture and the Politics of Visibility). Tom Holert, ed. Cologne: Oktagon, 2000.
ÒOrbital Viewing: Satellite
Technologies and Cultural Practice.Ó Convergence: The Journal of Research
Into New Media Technologies, Winter
2000.
ÒBringing Barbarella Down to Earth: ÔAstronauttesÕ and Feminine Sexuality
in 1960s American Culture,Ó in Swinging Singles: Rewriting Sexual Identity
in the 1960s. Hilary Radner, ed.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
ÒIntroduction to Media Audiences and Reception,Ó The
Velvet Light Trap, Fall 1998.
ÒSpecial Agent or
Monstrosity?: Finding the Feminine in The X-Files,Ó in Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files.
David Lavery, et al., eds.
Syracuse University Press, 1996.
ÒCOMSAT,Ó in The
Encyclopedia of Television History,
Horace Newcomb, ed., Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
ÒUnderneath the Antenna
Tree,Ó Object of Media Studies Research Project, ed. Amelie Hastie, Vectors:
Online Journal of Technology and Culture in a Dynamic Vernacular, Spring 2006.
ÒOut There: Exploring
Satellite Awareness,Ó interview of Lisa Parks by Geert Lovink for Nettime
listserv, fall 2005. http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2005/11/out_there_explo.html
ÒThe 2004 Presidential
Election and the Dean Scream.Ó Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and
Media Culture, Vol. 1, issue 9. Feb.
4, 2005.
ÒMy Private Space Program.Ó
Catalog essay for Max GrueterÕs art exhibition at the AAAS gallery in
Washington DC, Nov-Dec, 2004.
ÒPowder Keg in Santa Barbara: Media, Politics and the Balkans
War.Ó CULT-STUD L,
http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/columns/lp-15-08-99.html.
Mette Bryld and Nina Lykke, Cosmodolphins:
Feminist Cultural Studies of Technology, Animals and the Sacred, Zed Books, New York; London: 2000. Convergence:
The Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, Fall 2001.
ÒFeminist Visions: Give Me
That Camera! Playing with Gender
in Videos About Girls,Ó Feminist Collections, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1997.
bell hooks, Reel to Real:
Race, Sex and Class at the Movies,
New York: Routledge, 1996. Velvet Light Trap: Journal of
Television and Film Studies, Spring 1997.
Invited Lectures
ÒPostwar Footprints,Ó
Constant Capture Conference, Center for International Education, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 19-21, 2006.
ÒPoints of Departure: The
Culture of US Airport Screening,Ó Forensic Futures, Birbcck Law School,
University of London, March 16-18, 2006.
Keynote Address, Merging Methodologies Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Feb. 9-11, 2006.
ÒPostwar Footprints,Ó Public Symposium for B-Zone/Transcultural Geographies Exhibition, KW Contemporary Art Institute, Berlin, Dec 17, 2005.
ÒGlimpses of the Global: Positioning Media Studies,Ó Keynote lecture, Transformations in Art and Culture Conference, Netherlands Scientific Research Organization, Amsterdam, May 27-28, 2005.
ÒPlanet Patrol: Satellite Images, Acts of Knowledge and Global Security,Ó Visual Culture Revisited Conference, JFK Institute, Frei University Berlin, April 15-17, 2005.
ÒMedia in Ruins,Ó Transcultural Geographies Symposium, Institute for Theory and the Humanities, Zurich, Mar 14-19, 2005.
Panelist, Post-Election Faculty Forum broadcast on UCTV, November 2004.
ÒMixed Signals: Emerging Media in Mongolia,Ó Center for Information Technology and Society Advisory Board Meeting and Lunch. UCSB, Nov. 1, 2004.
ÒPostwar Footprints: Media in
Slovenia and Croatia,Ó Transcultural Geographies, ISH, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
July 26-30, 2004. (organizer of week-long workshop as well)
ÒObservations into Deeper
SpaceÓ (Satellitenbilder als Erkenntnissystem), Kunsthochschule fur Medien
(KHM), Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, July 22, 2004.
ÒLoomÓ guest lecture in Renee
GreenÕs Art Criticism Seminar, UCSB, May 2004.
ÒMedia Tracks: The
Transcultural Geographies Project,Ó Global Circuits Conference, UC Irvine, May
2004.
ÒAir Raids: War, Gender and
TV News.Ó American Culture and Global Governance Conference. Critical Issues in
America Event, UCSB, April 2004.
ÒGlobal TVÓ Media Series of
Committee for World Democracy, UC San Diego, Jan 30, 2004.
ÒSatellites and Culture,Ó
guest lecture in Space Art and Science, Professor Marko Peljhan, Art Studio
Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, Jan 21, 2004.
ÒLoom,Ó Transcultural
Geographies work session. Platform Contemporary Art Center, Dec. 2003,
Istanbul.
Experiments in Satellite
Media Arts, Sub-Art Institute,
Razanj, Croatia, August 15, 2003.
ÒWireless Culture in
Slovenia,Ó Transcultural Geography Work session, University of Amsterdam, June
23-29, 2003.
ÒPlanet Patrol: Satellite
Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security,Ó Rethinking Global Security
Conference, UW-Milwaukee, April 11-12, 2003.
ÒSatellites, Television and
New Media,Ó Critical Media Studies Seminar at ISH in Ljubljana, Slovenia. March
17-24, 2003.
ÒTo See What We Hear: Mapping
Scenes of Mobile Telephony,Ó Center for Information Technology and Society
Lecture Series, UCSB, November 8, 2002.
ÒTinkering with Satellites,Ó
Basel Media Arts, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2002.
ÒOrbital Performers and
Satellite Translators: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,Ó Interventionen
Lecture Series, Institut fur Theorie der Gestaltung und Kunst (ITH), Zurich,
Switzerland, October 31, 2002.
Panelist on Media Coverage of
Conflicts in the Middle East, Student Action Forum for the Middle East Lecture
Series, UCSB, May 2002.
ÒFighting on Air: CNN and Fox
Television Coverage of the War in Afghanistan,Ó Department of Communication,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Dec 21, 2001.
Workshop on Television and
Internet Convergence, Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis (Ljubljana Graduate
School of the Humanities), Slovenia, Dec. 20, 2001.
Panelist,
Networks to Nanosystems: Art, Science and Technology in Times of Crisis. UC
Digital Arts Research Network, UC Santa Cruz, Nov. 8, 2001.
ÒDe-Militarizing the
Image: Witnessing in the Information Age.Ó Guest Speaker in Global
Communication and Culture Seminar. Sponsored by Media, Performance, Identity
Research Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 2-4, 2001.
Panelist,
ÒThinking Through the Catastrophe: Women and War.Ó Public Forum Sponsored by
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB, October 22, 2001.
ÒSatellite Views of
Srebrenica: Orbital Approximations of the Other Europe.Ó The Other Europe UC
Humanities Symposium,Ó Department of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, May 3,
2001. Cancelled due to Illness.
ÒSatellite Translators and
Orbital Performers: Art in the Age of Ionospheric Exchange,Ó Kapelica Art
Gallery, Project ATOL, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 10, 2001.
Panelist, Community Symposium
on Reality Television and Globalization, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia,
April 3, 2001.
Television Studies Workshop,
College of Communication, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia, April 2, 2001.
ÒSatellites and Citizenship,Ó
Guest Lecture in New Media, New Citizenship Course, University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands, March 26, 2001.
ÒSatellites, Images, and
Archives,Ó Suchbilder (Searching Images) Symposium, Kunst-Werke Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin, February 6-8, 2001.
ÒMoving Media,Ó Gendering
Cyberspace Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, November 24-27,
2000.
ÒCyber and Satellite
Visualities: Analyzing the Digital Earth,Ó Global Visual Cultures Conference,
November 10-12, 2000, University of Wisconsin-Madison; also presented at
Gendering Cyberspace Conference, Odense, Denmark, Nov 24-26, 2000.
ÒOyxgen/Hydrogen:
Gender and Media Research in the Digital AgeÓ with Constance Penley and Anna
Everett, The WomenÕs Center, UCSB,
October 19, 2000; also presented at the Communication Dept. Colloquium, UCSB,
Nov. 16, 2000; and Missing Links Research Exchange, Odense, Denmark, Nov 24-27,
2000; University of Utrecht, March 26, 2001.
ÒTelevision and Art: The Work
of Nam Jun Paik,Ó Santa Barbara Museum of Art, September 19 & 22, 2000.
ÒPlotting the Personal:
Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.Ó Digital Dialogues Seminar
Series, The Art Center, Pasadena, November 17, 1999; and
Cultural Analysis Colloquium,
UC Santa Barbara, February 9, 2000.
ÒTo the Edge of Time: The
Cosmic Zoom.Ó The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz, May 5,
1999.
Professional Conferences
Organizer and Moderator,
ÒCITS Global Cultures in Transition Research Symposium on Alternative
Networks,Ó May 4, UCSB.
Organizer and Moderator,
ÒTechno-Roaming: Spotlighting IT Around the World,Ó SB Forum on Digital
Transitions, UCSB, April 9-10, 2006.
ÒTelevision and Materialism:
The Learning ChannelÕs Junkyard Wars,Ó
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, Mar 4-7, 2004.
ÒPlanet Patrol: Satellite
Images, Acts of Knowledge, and Global Security,Ó International Communication
Association Conference, May 23-27, 2003, San Diego
ÒTalking
Television: An Interview with Buffy Writer, Jane Espenson,Ó Entertainment Value Conference,
UCSB, May 3-5, 2002.
ÒDe-Militarizing
the Image: Witnessing in the Information Age,Ó Paper presented at
Panelist, Workshop on Global
Media Pedagogy. Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington DC, May
24-27, 2001.
ÒTranslating Technology.Ó
Paper presented at the International Performance Studies Conference, University
of Mainz (Germany), March 28-April 1, 2001.
ÒSatellite Panoramas:
Imagining the Otherworldly.Ó American Studies Association Conference, Detroit,
October 12-15, 2000.
Participant, Public
Humanities Initiative with John Guillory, UCSB, October 6th, 2000.
ÒWayPlay: GPS and Web
Interfaces,Ó Demonstration at Digivations Conference, Bacara Resort, Santa
Barbara, California, September 24-26, 2000.
ÒSatellite Sights: Global
Space, Cyberspace, Outer Space.Ó Paper presented at the Crossroads
International Cultural Studies Conference. Birmingham, England, June 21-25,
2000.
ÒBrave New Buffy: Rethinking TV Violence and Sexuality.Ó Paper
presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference. University of Notre Dame,
South Bend, Indiana, May 11-14, 2000.
ÒInterflows: Television and
Internet Convergence.Ó Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies
Conference, Chicago, March 9-12, 2000.
ÒThe Global Reach of Early
American Television: Race and Ethnicity in Wide Wide World.Ó Paper presented at the Fulbright American Studies
Conference, University of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand, July 9-11,
1999.
ÒPlotting the Personal:
Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media.Ó Paper presented at the
Interactive Frictions Conference, USC, June 4-6, 1999.
ÒOrbital Media: Theorizing
Satellite Technologies.Ó Paper presented at the International Communications
Association Conference, San Francisco, May 1999. Panel Coordinator: ÒCultural
Studies in the Contact Zone.Ó
Chair, ÒVisual Culture and
Public Gender Education,Ó Women Transforming the Public Sphere Conference,
April 1999, University of California at Santa Barbara.
ÒTelevisual Hopscotch: Wide
Wide World and the Globalization of
NBC-TV in the 1950s.Ó Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies
Conference, Palm Beach, April 1999.
ÒAnOther View: Satellite
Technologies and Cultural Practice,Ó Electronic Panel Host, Cultural Turn 2
Conference, University of California-Santa Barbara, February 5-7, 1999.
ÒInspecting African Bodies:
Television News Coverage and Satellite Imaging of Rwandan Refugees.Ó Paper co-presented with Jo Ellen Fair
at ÒCommunicating AfricaÓ conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
October 2, 1998.
ÒTo the Edge of Time: Digital
Imaging, Film Narrative, and the Cosmic Zoom.Ó Paper presented at Five Rivers
Festival of Film Conference, University of Montana-Missoula, September 17-20,
1998.
Panel Chair, ÒSatellite
Crossings: Media Beyond Borders.Ó
ÒSatellite Encounters: Border Anxieties in The Arrival and Contact.Ó Paper presented at the Society for
Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, April 4-7, 1998.
ÒElvis Goes Global: Live via
Satellite Aloha from Hawaii.Ó
Paper presented at the Society of Ethnomusicology and International Popular
Music Association Conference, Pittsburgh, October 23-25, 1997.
Participant, ÒDemocratizing
Global Communications: Evaluating the ÔPeopleÕs Communication CharterÕ as a
Strategic Document,Ó University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sept. 26-28, 1997.
ÒLocal Dreamtime: Australian
Aboriginal Landscapes and Satellite Technology.Ó Paper presented at the 6th annual Wisconsin Space Grant
Consortium Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 14-15, 1997; also presented
at the Association for Literature and the Environment Conference, Missoula,
Montana, July 17-19, 1997.
ÒSatellite Rhythms: Channel
V, Music Video and Transnational Gender.Ó
Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference (Critical Studies
of Television, Video and Gender), Montreal, May 1-4, 1997; also to be presented
at the 18th Ohio University Film Conference, Nov. 6-8, 1997.
ÒÔAn Electronic MiracleÕ: Our
World, Global Television and National
Identity.Ó Paper presented at the
Society for Cinema Studies Conference, May 16-18, 1997, Ottawa, Canada.
ÒAmerica as Alien: Satellite
Television as Immigrant Culture.Ó Presenter and panel coordinator,
ÒCommunicating Nations: Media Culture, National Identity and America,Ó
American Studies Association
Conference, October 18-21, 1996, St. Louis, Missouri.
ÒGlobal Media, Vision and Outer Space: A Cultural History of Visual Satellite
Communication.Ó Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Conference, UW-Green Bay, July
11-12, 1996.
ÒCracking Open the Set: The
Television Repairman in Industry and at Home.Ó Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference,
Madison, Wisconsin, April 1996.
ÒCosmic CD-ROMS: Outer Space,
Science Fiction and NASAÕs Visual Archives.Ó Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies
Conference, Dallas, March 1996.
ÒTechnology in the Twilight:
A Cultural History of the First Earth Satellite.Ó Paper
presented at the Society for
the History of Technology Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 1995.
ÒSpecial Agent or
Monstrosity?: Finding the Feminine in The X-Files.Ó Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions
Conference, Seattle, April 1995.
ÒThe Fugitive Image: New
Technologies and Legal Evidence.Ó
Paper presented at the
Visible Evidence Conference (Critical Studies of Documentary Images),
USC, Los Angeles, Aug. 1994.
ÒThe Culture of Big Brother
and the Video Vigilante: Keeping an Eye on the New Surveillance.Ó Paper presented at University Film and
Video Association Conference, Bozeman, Montana, Aug. 1994.
ÒPrivate Secretary in the Public Eye: The Working Girl Sitcoms of the
Early 1950s.Ó Paper presented at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Westward
Look Resort, Tuscon, AZ, April 1994.
ÒEarly Television Romance in Bride
and Groom and The Continental: Married Women and Spectatorial Identity.Ó Paper presented at Society for Cinema
Studies Conference, New Orleans, Feb. 1993 and at Console-ing Passions, Los Angeles,
April 1993.
ÒA Float Away from the
Everyday: Stress, Discipline and the Flotation Tank.Ó Paper presented at the Theory, Culture and Society
Conference, Seven Springs Resort, Pennsylvania, Aug. 1992.
Honors, Awards and Grants
$24,000 Fellowship,
Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, 2006-2007.
Fellowship, UC Humanities
Research Institute, The Object of Media Studies, UC Irvine, Fall 2005.
$5000 ÒMixed Signals:
Satellite Television in Mongolia.Ó Academic Senate Research Grant. 2004/2005.
Globalization and Imaging,
Research Fellowship with Nicholas Mirzoeff and Wendy Chun, Humanities Research
Council, Canberra, Australia, Summer 2004.
Kovacs Essay Award for
ÒSatellite Views of Srebrenica: Televisuality and the Politics of Witnessing,Ó
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2003.
$170,000 (Euros), ÒVisual
Research on Transcultural Geography,Ó Collaborative Research with ITH (Zurich) and University of Amsterdam,
and Media Art Institute in Cologne, Funded by Federal Foundation for Culture
Halle, Germany, 2003-2005. http://www.tc-geographies.net/concept/
$1,000 UCSB Academic Senate
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, UCSB, 2002
$5,000 Research Across the
Disciplines, Research in Visual Culture and Imaging Technologies, UCSB,
2002-2003
$5,000 UCSB Ð Academic Senate
Research Grant, ÒTo See What We Hear: Mobile Telephony in former Yugoslavia,Ó
2002-2003
$10,000 UCSB Ð Humanities and
Arts Grant, ÒExperiments in Satellite Media Arts,Ó 2002-2003
$4,000, UCHRI Grant, Beyond Noise
Conference, August 2002
$3,000, IHC Grant with Nina
Fales, Beyond Noise Conference, August 2002
$4,500, Instructional
Improvement Grant, War and Media Course, 2002/2003
$3,500, Undergraduate
Advising Grant, Spring 2001, UCSB
$5,000 Research Across the
Disciplines Grant, UCSB, Oxygen Media Research Project, 2000/2001.
$15,000 Committee on
Research, UCSB Oxygen Media Research Project, 2000/2001.
$10,000 Instructional
Improvement Grant, UCSB Dept. of Film Studies, 2000/2001
First Place Winner, InReach
Indepdendent Web Design Contest, June 2000, $500.00
http://www.inreach.com/inreach/press/webde-win.html
$5,000, Regents Junior
Faculty Fellowship, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999.
$1,000, Independent Research
Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California at Santa
Barbara, 1999.
$50,000, International
Research Exchange funded by the Netherlands Research Organization with
Constance Penley and Anna Everett. ÒGender, Media and Cultural Studies: Finding
the Missing Links,Ó 1999-2002.
$10,000, Instructional
Improvement Grant with Anna Everett. Department of Film Studies, University of
California at Santa Barbara, 1999-2000.
Senior Seminar with Juliette
Williams. ÒLaw and Media Culture.Ó Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999-2000. $500
Dissertation Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.
NASA/Wisconsin Space Grant
Consortium Fellowship, 1995-1997.
Department Teaching Award,
Communication Arts Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-96.
Society for the History of
Technology Travel Award, 1995.
Elizabeth Warner Risser Award
(outstanding female graduate student), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
Ruth McCarty Travel Award,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 & 1997.
Teaching
History/University Service
2003 Television Theory
Graduate Seminar, USC, School of Cinema and Television
1998-present, Film Studies Department,
University of California Santa Barbara.
Courses:
Global Media, Television Theory, Digital Theory, , Wireless Cultures, Media Art
& Activism, Television History, War and Media, Law and Media Culture, Writing
for New Media, Advanced Film
Analysis, Women and Film, Critical Approaches to Location Scouting, Technology
& Society
Organizer,
Film and Media Studies Colloquium Series
Supervisor.
KCSB internships. Film Studies Department
Member,
Academic Senate Diversity and Equity Committee
Member,
Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award Committee
Member,
Ad Hoc Committee, Academic Senate, Academic Freedom and the Patriot Acts
Co-Organizer with
Lisa Hajjar, ÒHome of the Free: A Public Forum on the Patriot
Acts,Ó April 27,
2004, IHC
Member,
UCSB SPUR Grant Award Committee, fall 2003
Organizer,
Film and Media Studies Colloquium Series
Supervisor. KCSB internships. Film Studies Department
ChancellorÕs
Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Academic
Senate Teaching Award Selection Committee
Committee
on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication
Policy
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Film Studies, UCSB
Committee
on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication
Policy
ChancellorÕs
Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
REEL
Loud Selection Committee
Sesonske
Contest Committee
Paul
Lazarus Fellowship Committee
Steering
Committee, Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing
in the Humanities, Arts and
Social Sciences Conference, March 2002
Steering
Committee, Entertainment Value Conference
Organizing
Committee, Beyond Noise Conference
Member,
Digital Cultures Project
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Film Studies, UCSB
Committee
on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication
Policy
ChancellorÕs
Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Advisor to Student Video Collective, Live to Tape
Consultant, Outreach
Video Targeting Minority Students, Office of Student Relations, UCSB
Artsbridge
Faculty Mentor
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender,
Media and Globalization Reading Group
Templeton
Lecture Series on Science and Religion
Sesonske
Contest Committee
Paul
Lazarus Fellowship Committee
Reel
Loud Selection Committee
Instructional
Media Day Participant
Organizer,
Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing
in the Humanities, Arts and
Social Sciences Conference
Organizer,
Entertainment Value Conference
Participant,
Digital Cultures Project
Committee
on Computing, Information Technology and Telecommunication
Policy
ChancellorÕs Regents Scholarship Selection Committee
Instructional Improvement Grant Committee
FS 46B Curriculum Development Committee
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender, Media and
Globalization Reading Group
Idee-Levitan Lecture Series Committee,
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Instructional Improvement Grant Committee
FS 46B Curriculum Development Committee
Television Studies Archive Project
Gender, Media and
Globalization Reading Group
Lecturer 1997-1998, WomenÕs
Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses:
Gender and Technology, Women
and Popular Culture
Curriculum
Committee
Teaching Assistant 1992-1998,
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses:
Advanced Video Production, Introduction
to Video Production,
Introduction
to Radio, Television and Film, Introduction
to Public Speaking
Reader
for Television Criticism, Semiotics
of Communication
Research
Assistant to Professor John Fiske
Vice
President, TAA 1996
Academic Activities and
Service
Manuscript reviews for Duke,
Peter Lang Publishing, fall 2005
Editorial Board, Film
Quarterly, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Critical
Studies in Media Communication, 2006-present
Chair, Dissertation Award
Committee, SCMS, 2005-2006
Book manuscript proposal
review for Polity Press, March 2005.
Consultant, Research Project
on Globalization and Transformations in Central and Eastern European Media
Culture, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Scientific Research Organization,
2004-2006
Editorial Board, e-media, 2004-present
Dissertation Award Committee,
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2004-2005
Conference Program Committee,
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2003-2004
Editorial Board, The
Velvet Light Trap: Journal of Film and Television Studies, 2002-present
Book manuscript review for
Duke University Press, May 2003.
Book manuscript review for
New York University Press, March 2003.
Essay manuscript review for Feminist
Media Studies, 2002.
Editorial Board, Intensities:
Online Journal of Fan Culture,
2000-present
Advisory Board, CULT-STUD
listserv, 1999-2003
Committee Member, Kovacs
Essay Award Contest, Society for Cinema Studies, 2000/2001.
Manuscript reviewer for
Wadsworth Publishers, 2000.
Manuscript reviewer for
Houghton-Mifflin, 1999.
Television Studies and New
Media Caucus, Society for Cinema Studies, 1999-present.
Editor, 1997-1998, The
Velvet Light Trap (Journal of Film
and Television Studies). Editorial
board member, 1993-1997.
Editorial Assistant, Television
and International Feminist Studies,
Julie DÕAcci, Charlotte Brunsdon and Lynn Spigel, eds., Oxford University
Press, 1997.
Assistant Conference
Coordinator, Console-ing Passions Conference, April 1996, Madison,
Wisconsin.
Co-Curator, Television
History Archive Show, Console-ing Passions Conference, 1996.
Judge of Communication Arts
Department Speech Contest organized by Professor Stephen Lucas, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 1994-97.
Academic Organizations
Society for Cinema and Media
Studies
International Communication
Association
American Studies Association
International Association for
the Study of Popular Music
National Communication
Association
Community Service
Panelist, Faculty forum on
the Presidential Election, UCTV, 2004.
Organizer of ÒHome Free: A
Public Forum on the Patriot Acts,Ó 2004.
Judge, Reel Loud, UCSB
Student Film Festival, 2000.
Media Experience &
Projects
ÒPostwar Footprints,Ó
Multimedia Installation, B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond, KW Contemporary
Art Institute, Berlin, Dec 2005-Mar 2006. Also selected for New Order, Geneva,
May-June 2006.
ÒMedia Coverage of Katrina,Ó
Interviewed for hour-long radio talk show Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio,
September 2005.
Participant, UCSB Faculty
Roundtable on the 2004 Presidential Election for UCTV, Nov. 2004.
No Alibis. Live interview on KCSB radio regarding the Patriot
Acts. April 2004.
LOOM. Multimedia installation produced with Miha Vipotnik.
Exhibited at ÒIndexÓ POST Gallery, Los Angeles, March-May 2004. Material
produced at SubArt in collaboration with Media Arts Department, University of
Achen, Germany in Razanj, Croatia, August 1-18, 2003.
Experiments in Satellite
Media Arts, video developed at
Makrolab in Scotland, June 2002 with Ursula Biemann. Video exhibited as part of
Geography and Politics of Mobility show at Generali Art Museum, Vienna,
Austria, 2003.
Silver Memories, video art piece about witnessing and the war in
Bosnia, 2003.
War and Media course website,
Aug 2002.
NPR Interview about Broken
Saints website, Jan 2002.
Santa Barbara Magazine, named one of 20 people to watch Dec 2001/Jan 2002.
Co-Developer, WayPlay, GPS
web application, 2000.
Personal Website, Spring
2000.
http://www.film-studies.ucsb.edu/faculty/parks/
Video Art and Activism
website, Fall 1999.
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/~parks/courses/flmst190va/f1999/main.html
Host and writer, The
Satellite as Witness: Lisa Parks Watches the Bosnian War from Outer Space, Paper Tiger Television, Fall 1998.
Producer and Director of Robert
McChesney Takes On Media Globalization,
Paper Tiger Television, 1997.
Production Assistant, SKC-TV,
Salish and Kootenai Public Television Station, Flathead Indian Reservation,
Pablo, Montana, Summer 1997.
Contributor to In Our
Backyard, local news program on
community radio station, WORT, 89.9 FM.
Producer and Director of Iris, a 25 minute narrative video about surveillance and
gender identity. Fall 1994.
Producer of Girlie
Magazine, a 30 minute radio program
produced for WORT, featuring news segments, interviews, cultural reviews,
social commentaries, music and poetry, 1994 - 1996.
Contributor to Chick Chat, womenÕs public access television show, WYOU-TV,
Madison Public Access Television.
Producer and Editor of Stuffed
Animals, a 25 minute documentary
video about taxidermists in Wisconsin.
Fall 1995.
Assistant Producer &
Asst. Director of Spirit, a
30-minute, 16 mm narrative film shot in Madison, WI and Chicago, IL, summer
1994.
Production Assistant and
Researcher, WHA-TV, Wisconsin Public Television. Fall 1991 - Spring 92.