Faculty in the Popular Culture Minor
- Dr. Ananda Abeysekara, Associate Professor of Religion, studies both popular Asian religious movements and religious violence.
- Dr. Kwame Harrison, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, is an anthropologist who studies independent hip hop movements and teaches courses on the sociology of culture.
- Dr. Humberto Rodríguez-Camilloni, Professor of Architecture, offers insight into the popular-cultural status and works of Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Dr. Neal King, Associate Professor of Sociology, provides scholarship on film violence and the various public and scientific debates about it.
- Dr. Nancy McGehee, Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism, studies and teaches on the cultural impact of tourism industries.
- Dr.
Paulo S. Polanah, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, teaches courses on Black Aesthetics (especially in film) and researches the cultivation of "African" culture as Western commodity.
- Dr. Stephen Prince, Professor of Communication Studies and past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, is coordinator of the minor in Film Studies and a widely noted scholar of film.
- Dr. Michael Saffle , Professor of Religion and Culture, studiesand teaches musicology and uses of music in film.
- Dr. Emily Satterwhite, Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture, teaches Introduction to American Studies and researches the construction of whiteness and "Appalachia" in American fiction.
- Dr. J.D. Stahl, Professor of English, film critic and scholar of children’s literature.
Students who want more information or who wish to complete this minor should consult either the coordinator or the Advising office:
- Interdisciplinary Studies Advising, 151 Lane Hall, 231-6630. Email Undergraduate Advisor Carol Sue Slusser at slusserc@vt.edu
- Minor coordinators, Dr. Emily Satterwhite and Dr. Michael Saffle