Associate Professor Schiller talks with a community television producer in Caracas, Venezuela.
Naomi Schiller
Associate Professor
Naomi Schiller is associate professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Schiller's research and teaching focus on urban politics, climate justice, visual and media anthropology, and the state in Latin America and the United States. Her book, Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela (Duke University Press 2018), argues that community media producers from poor neighborhoods of west Caracas used television in unexpected ways to advance political change during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. Her new research focuses on community activism, social class, race, urban governance, coastal adaptation, and climate change in New York City.
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology, New York University, 2009
Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University, 2005
M.Phil. Anthropology, New York University, 2004
B.A. Women's Studies and Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 2000
Select Books and Publications
"Urban Media as Infrastructure." In The Routledge Urban Media Companion, edited by Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson. New York: Routledge. 2019.
"Changing the Channel: Class Conflict, Everyday State Formation, and Television in Venezuela." Latin American Perspectives. 2018.
Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela. Duke University Press. 2018.
"Anthropology of Liberalism." The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Dominic Boyer and Ulf Hannerz, anthropology section co-editors. Reed Elsevier. 2015.
Cooper, Amy, Robert Samet and Naomi Schiller. "Protests and Polarization in Venezuela After Chávez." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, Feb. 5, 2015.
"Reckoning with Press Freedom: Community Media, Liberalism, and the Processual State in Caracas, Venezuela." American Ethnologist 40.3: 540-54. 2013.
"'Now That the Petroleum Is Ours:' Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela." Crude Domination: The Anthropology of Oil. Eds. A. Behrends, S. Reyna and G. Schlee. New York: Berghahn Books. 190-210. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and Participatory Statemaking in the Chávez Era." Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez. Eds. D. Smilde and D. Hellinger. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 104-30. 2011
"Framing the Revolution: Circulation and Meaning of 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.'" Mass Communication and Society 12.4: 478-502. 2009
Mailing Address
Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Office: 3301K James Hall
P: 718.951.5000, ext. 3799
F: 718.951.3169
E: nschiller@brooklyn.cuny.edu
