Robin Balliger is a cultural anthropologist who has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 2000. She was also a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Stanford University from 1999-2002. Her breadth of interests and course topics include music/sound, consumption, postcoloniality and globalization, critical geography, art in the public sphere, critical theory, the Caribbean and California. Courses taught are listed below, along with two syllabi from recent courses. She loves the students at SFAI and she has earned “Faculty Awards” from the Student Union. She appreciates teaching evaluations with comments like “BADASS!”

Billy X explains significance of Black Panthers
Cultural Politics of Urban Transformation in Oakland
The Social and Spatial Politics of Contemporary Public Art
Auditory Cultures: Music and Sound in Transnational Contexts
Global Perspectives on Modernity (Graduate Critical Studies
Media and Cultural Geography
Consuming Cultures: The Geopolitics of Consumption
Research and Writing Colloquium (Graduate Critical Studies)
Consumption and Commodity Culture (Graduate Critical Studies)
Governmentality and Culture in the New World Order (Grad CS)
Geographic Imaginations: Mapping Spaces, Subjectivities, and Power (Grad CS)
Critical Geographies: Bodies, Spaces, Power
Globalism, Communication, Performance
Critical Theory A (advanced critical theory survey course)
Identity and Difference in the Making of the Modern World (Humanities/History)
Comparative Cultural Studies
Ethnographic and Critical Perspectives on Popular Culture
The Desert of The Real: Cultural Politics in the Contemporary US
Teaching Fellow, Stanford University (2002, Winter and Spring quarters)
Encounters and Identities (Introduction to the Humanities Program)
Lecturer, Stanford University (1999-2002)
Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Comparative Cultural Studies

Students in Balliger’s Oakland class with Billy X and Mexican bus