David Serlin (Communication)
dserlin@ucsd.edu

Department of Communication 0503
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503
Phone: (858) 534-6327
Fax: (858) 534-7315

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Research interests: Nineteenth and twentieth century cultural studies of medicine and health in national and transnational perspective; disability studies; gender/sexuality studies and queer theory; material culture and museum studies; architecture, urbanism, and the built environment

Education: Ph.D. in American Studies, New York University, 1999

Selected Publications:
Co-Editor, Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

“Rethinking the Corporate Biosphere: The Social Ecology of Sustainable Architecture.” In David Gissen, ed., Big and Green: Sustainable Urban Architecture for the 21st Century (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), 136-145.

Co-Editor, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (New York University Press, 2002).

Co-Editor, Policing Public Sex: Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism (South End Press, 1996). Winner of the 1997 Gustav Meyers Center Award for a Book on the Subject of Human Rights in North America.