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Daniel Gómez Steinhart, Cinema Studies, and 2020-21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow

This book examines the history of Hollywood productions in Mexico from the mid-1940s until the early 1970s. Drawing on archival materials, it sheds light on how Hollywood formed a close relationship with the Mexican film industry through a mix of investment, production, and talent exchange. Ultimately, this project historicizes current debates about production outsourcing, trade, and immigration between the United States and Mexico while revealing the complicated cross-cultural exchanges that have long connected these two countries.

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist and avid jazz saxophonist. He authored "The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe." Alexander is president of the National Society of Black Physicists. His forthcoming book "Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics" will be published in August 2021.

Writer Jamel Brinkley reads and talks about his short story collection A Lonely Man. He discusses the craft of his writing. #literature​ #creative​ #writing.

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Fiction writer Jason Brown is an associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. He is the author of three short story collections. The most recent is "A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed: A Novel in Stories" published in 2019. Brown reads from the collection and discusses his writing.

Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, is a world-renowned geologist, historian of science, and public speaker. She is a leading public intellectual on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and on anti-scientific disinformation campaigns. Co-sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.

Ryan Jones is associate professor of History at the University of Oregon. He holds the Ann Swindells Chair. His research interests include Russian history, Pacific history, and global environmental history.

Jones is the author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741–1867 published by Oxford University Press in 2014. His next book Red Leviathan: The Soviet Union and the Secret Destruction of the World’s Whales is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

Naomi Oreskes, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, is the author or co-author of seven books including Merchants of Doubt (2010), The Collapse of Western Civilization (2014), Discerning Experts (2019), Why Trust Science? (2019), and Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change forthcoming in April 2021.

In 2018 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for a new book project with Erik Conway, The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.

On March 12th, 2021 Naomi Oreskes will give a virtual lecture “Can Science Be Saved?” as the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2020-2021 Cressman Lecturer. Register at https://ohc.uoregon.edu

Michelle M. Jacob, an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation and Professor of Indigenous Studies and Director of the Sapsik’ʷałá (Teacher) Education Program in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. She also serves as affiliated faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Studies Program.

Jacob is author of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (published in 2013) and Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (published in 2016). She co-edited, with Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest, published in 2019.

Her latest books are, The Auntie Way: Stories Celebrating Kindness, Fierceness, and Creativity and Huckleberries and Coyotes: Lessons from Our More than Human Relations, both published in 2020.

Fabienne Moore, Romance Languages, 2020–21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow

Maxwell Foxman is an assistant professor of Media Studies and Game Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He describes Game Studies as an academic discipline and talks about the presence of games and play in non-game contexts. Foxman is a member of the UO's Esports and Game Research lab which examines college-level esports and how esports is institutionalizing in university and college campuses.