DOUGLAS JON WILLIAMS
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503

645 Valle Vista Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
(510) 452-5402
E-mail:  dwilliam@weber.ucsd.edu

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EDUCATION:

Doctoral Candidate, Communication, University of California, San Diego

	Admitted to Candidacy, June 1994
	Dissertation Topic:  The Eagle or the Cross:  Bible and Roman
	Epics, and Cold War America.

M.A.	San Francisco State University, 1991: Film Theory

	Master's Thesis: In Search of the Grail:  The Films of George
	Lucas 
B.A.	University of Oregon, 1982:  Telecommunication and Film


Areas of Interest:

Cinema theory and practice; Interaction of language, narrative, culture
and cognition; Socio-Historical psychology and Activity theory;
Cognitive Linguistics; American Studies.

Employment and Related Professional Experience:

1/95-3/95   Manuscript Reader, Communication Review (Editors Michael
 	    Cole, Robert Horwitz, Michael Schudson)

1/94-6/94   U.C. San Diego, TEACHING ASSISTANT:  Human Information
	    Processing (Yrjo Engestrom); How to Read A Film (Helene
	    Keyssar).

2/94-6/94   Paper Tiger Collective:  Worked in various capacities on a
	    variety of short productions.

8/93-12/93  U.C. Berkeley MEDIA ASSISTANT, School of Education
            Media Equipment Office.  Duties: Checking out and
            maintaining equipment of School of Education.

3/93	    San Diego State University GUEST LECTURER, Advanced
	    Filmmaking, Jack Ofield:  "Music and Cinema:  Vertical
	    Montage Technique in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and
	    Madonna/Mary Lambert's "Like a Prayer" 

8/92-6/93   U.C. San Diego TEACHING ASSISTANT:  Media Production
            and Theory (Marita Sturken); Introduction to Communication
	    (Dan Hallen); Children and Media (JoEllen Fisherkeller)


3/92-7/92   Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, U.C San
            Diego. RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Psy-Pub Project: Coordinating
	    with a team research projects between members of the Russian
	    Academy of Sciences and Western scholars.

3/92	    San Diego State University GUEST LECTURER, Advanced
	    Filmmaking, Jack Ofield:  "Deep Focus and Montage in Welles'
	    Touch of Evil" 

1/92	    PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, "San Diego Calling Vladivostok--A
	    Sister Cities Space Bridge" Jan. 26, PBS.  

9/91-3/92   U.C. San Diego TEACHING ASSISTANT:  Introduction to
            Communication (Michael Cole, Helene Keyssar)
	    Communication Production and Theory (Dee Dee Halleck).
     
8/88-12/88  San Francisco State University, GRADUATE ASSISTANT:
	    Contemporary Cinema  (Gregg Rickman)

1985-88	    Videographer, Snyderola Comedy Group, San Francisco, CA

Grants, Honors and Awards: 

1994:	    UC San Diego Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities
	    Dissertation Fellowship

1994-1996   Communication Department Dissertation Support Grant

Publications:

"The Seafarer as an Evangelical Poem", Lore and Language Vol. 8, No. 1,
pp. 19-30 (1988).

References:

Helene Keyssar, Professor, UC San Diego
Michael Cole, Professor, UC San Diego
Dan Hallin, Professor, UC San Diego