Biography
Althea Wasow is Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Currently, she is revising her monograph, Moving Images/Modern Policing: Silent Cinema and Its Afterlives, which analyzes the complicity and resistance between police power and motion pictures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also developing a Bert Williams essay film, Nobody (fiscal sponsor: Aubin Pictures), and conducting research on the relationship between Vandenberg Space Force Base and the Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, California, as Co-Principal Investigator of The Satellite Coast project (with PI Lisa Parks, UCSB, and Co-PI Carlos Jimenez Jr., University of Denver).