Cameron McCarthy

cmccart1@uiuc.edu

Research Professor of Communications

Professor of Educational Policy Studies

Primary areas of interest: Cultural Studies; curriculum theory; post colonial theory; media studies; popular music; literary criticism.



Professor Cameron McCarthy teaches courses in Globalization, Communications and Culture, Mass Communications Theory and Cultural Studies. He is Research Professor, Communications Scholar and University Scholar in the Institute of Communication Research. Professor McCarthy also holds joint appointments in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies. He has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge, York University, the University of Newcastle, Monash University and the University of Queensland. Professor McCarthy has published widely on topics related to postcolonialism, problems with neoMarxist writings on race and education, institutional support for teaching, and school ritual and adolescent identities in journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Oxford Review of Education, The British Journal of the Sociology of Education, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, International Studies in Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Ariel: Review of International English Literature, Discourse, Educational Theory, Curriculum Studies, The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Urban Education, Education and Society, Contemporary Sociology, The Journal of Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies, Interchange, The Journal of Education, and The European Journal of Intercultural Studies. Professor McCarthy has authored or co-authored the following books: Race and Curriculum (Falmer Press, 1990), Race Identity and Representation in Education (Routledge, 1993), Racismo y Curriculum (Morata, Madrid, 1994), The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation (Routledge, 1998), Sound Identities: Youth Music and the Cultural Politics of Education (Peter Lang, 1999) and Multicultural Curriculum: New Directions for Social Theory, Practice and Policy (Routledge, 2000). Reading and Teaching the Postcolonial: From Baldwin to Basquiat and Beyond (Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2001). Professor McCarthy has published with his graduate students on Foucault and Cultural Studies entitled, Foucault, Cultural Studies and Governmentality (SUNY Press, 2003). He is currently working (also with graduate students) on a special issue of Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies entitled "Identifying Culture(s): New Times and New Directions in Cultural Studies Research" and a new anthology, Race, Identity and Representation, Volume Two. This book will address the impact of globalization, particularly since 9/11, on racial formation and structuration in modern societies and will foreground new theoretical and empirical work on race relations by major national and international scholars. It has been solicited by Routledge/Falmer for its "Critical Social Thought" book series. With Professor Angharad Valdivia, Professor McCarthy is co-editor of the "Intersections in Communication and Culture" book series for Peter Lang/Institute of Communications Research.

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison