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!”

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