Curtis Marez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

213.740.3334
cmarez@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 405

Curtis Marez' teaching and research centers on popular culture and media studies in and around the US, and especially among racial and ethnic minorities and immigrants, particularly Chicanos/as and other Latinos/as.

Born and raised in the Central Valley of California, but tracing much of his family back to New Mexico, from when the area was part of Spain and then Mexico, Dr. Marez is also a core member of USC’s Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. His essays have appeared in American Quarterly, Aztlán, Cultural Critique, and Journal of Visual Culture and Social Text. His book, Drug Wars: the Political Economy of Narcotics analyzes the history of representations of drug traffic and their significance for understandings of capitalism and state power in the U.S. and the world.

He is also leads the Cinematic Arts Diversity Committee and is the editor of American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association.