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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYern Japanese poetics and other art forms in “Behind the Mask I: Exteriority,” a close reading<strong>of</strong> several <strong>of</strong> Sigmund Freud’s case studies in “On Freud’s Couch,” and a study <strong>of</strong> ethics andcinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterpartsin “Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters,Violence, and the Urban Landscape.”Marie Cruz SotoClinical Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 2000, Puerto Rico; M.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2008, Michigan (Ann Arbor)Marie Cruz Soto is interested in the history, cultures and interactions <strong>of</strong> the Americas. Herwork focuses on identity negotiations, postcolonial and feminist theory, spatial and historicalnarrations, nationalism, empire studies, coloniality in the Americas, community formationsand transnational networks. At <strong>Gallatin</strong>, she has taught courses like “Feminism, Empire andPostcoloniality,”“Narrating Memory,History and Place,”“Boundaries andTransgressions”and“The U.S. Empire and the Americas.” Currently, she is working on a book titled InhabitingIsla Nena, 1514-2003: Imperial Formations, Historical Narrations andVieques, Puerto Rico, whichdelves into the five-century struggle <strong>of</strong> peoples to inhabit the Caribbean island <strong>of</strong>Vieques and<strong>of</strong> empires to control it.Kimberly McClain DaCostaAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1989, Harvard; M.A. 1996, Ph.D. 2000, California (Berkeley)Kimberly McClain DaCosta, a sociologist,is especially interested in the contemporary production<strong>of</strong> racial boundaries.Her book,Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing<strong>of</strong> the Color Line (Stanford <strong>University</strong> Press, 2007), explores the cultural and socialunderpinnings <strong>of</strong> the movement to create multiracial collective identity in the United States.She is working on a study <strong>of</strong> the advertising industry and the structural, economic and culturaldimensions <strong>of</strong> ethnic marketing. Before coming to NYU, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor DaCosta taught inAfrican American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard <strong>University</strong>. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor DaCosta’s workhas been supported by the National Science Foundation,the RobertWood Johnson Foundation,the Advertising Educational Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.She teaches courses on race in different societies, families, and consumerism in internationalperspective. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor DaCosta is an Associate Faculty member in the NYU Department <strong>of</strong>Sociology and also serves as Associate Dean <strong>of</strong> Students at the <strong>Gallatin</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> 2012-2013 25

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