Carlos Torres

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Biography

received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010, combining research in the areas of comparative literature, film/media studies, and visual anthropology to document how Maya media producers reconstituted an indigenous present in Chiapas, Mexico. He is currently a Senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Sonoma State University and a local native-born resident of the North Bay region.

Education

Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder, Anthropology; M.A. & B.A. California State University at Fullerton, Anthropology.

Academic Interests

Carlos’ abiding research has been to promote and critique citizens’ media production of place and space. The focus of Carlos’ current research investigation and publication focuses on contemporary Native American media production, articulating consensus in the U.S. public sphere on acute social problems in the U.S., and the “big” history of human societal communication evidenced in prehistoric, historic, and modern public spheres.

Concentrations

Media Anthropology, Public Sphere Discourse Analysis, Global Anthropology

Selected Publications & Presentations

Writer: Finding Consensus Now: The Basis for Common Ground and How We Can Solve 6 Critical Problems in the U.S., under development for publication Summer of 2024.

Writer: In Tableau: Modern Human History Through the Lens of Visual Communication., under development for publication Fall of 2025.

Presenter: “Toward an Anthropology of Citizen Reportage.” American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. November 29, 2017

Co-Author with Katie Earnshaw: Multi-volume book review of the Photographic Publications of the Chiapas Photography Project, for American Anthropologist, 113(1). March, 2011

Author: Book review of Monkey Business Theater by Robert Laughlin and Sna Jtz’ibajom , 2009, for Latin American Indian Literature Journal, 25(1), Spring 2009

Co-Author with Caroline Conzelman: Book review of Circuits of Culture: Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes, by Jeff D. Himpele for Indigenous People’s Issues Today, August 22,  2008.

Editor:  Hollywood 101: A Handbook on the Film Business, Collaboration Filmworks, Hollywood, CA, March 2000

Videography

Director: Labyrinths of Solace, March, 2021.

Director:  We Demonstrate: Eulogy to an Anti-War Rally, Premiere and Discussion at The University of Colorado at Boulder, October 15, 2004. Aired November 21, 2004  on KTFD, Channel 14, Boulder.

Director: We Are the Other, March 2002. Premiered at the student film portion of the Traveling Margaret  Mead Film Festival, C.S.U.F. Aired August 14, 2002 on KTFD, Channel 14, Boulder

Production Coordinator: Inside the Kill Box: The War in the Gulf, for Arcwelder Films, Ltd. Premiered January 15, 2001 on the Discovery Channel.