Colleen Cohen

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• Colleen Cohen
• Robert DeMaria
• Wenwei Du
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Colleen Cohen

Colleen Ballerino Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, received her Ph.D. from SUNY-Albany in 1984. She has taught at Vassar since 1978, and has served as Faculty Director of the Media Cloisters, Chair of Anthropology, Director of Women's Studies, and Advisor to Sophomores. She is a member of the Women's Studies, Media Studies, and Latin American and Latino/a Studies faculties.

Colleen Ballerino Cohen teaches courses and publishes articles in anthropology, feminist studies and Caribbean studies. She is also an ethnographic videographer and teaches courses in ethnographic film and oppositional media. In the Media Studies program, she teaches Approaches to Media Studies and Serious Play: Computer Games in Contemporary Culture. In her role as liaison between the Vassar faculty and Computer Instructional Services, she explores and develops opportunities for collaborative teaching and learning, making use of interactive digital technologies.

In her ethnographic research in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Eastern Caribbean, Colleen Ballerino Cohen looks at how tourism affects BVI national development and identity. This relationship is explored in her 1995 video, Split Screens/Split Subjects, which she made in collaboration with native British Virgin Islander Kenne Hodge. Ms. Cohen's work on BVI Festival as an important site for displaying national identity has resulted in several journal articles and conference papers as well as in her 1996 co-edited book, Beauty Queens on the Global Stage (with Richard Wilk and Beverly Stoltje) and in her 1998 video, Big Festival in a Small Place (with Kenne Hodge). She is currently working on her third ethnographic video, Iron Strong: Making Music and Making Nation, and a book, Take Me to My Paradise: British Virgin Islands as Desti-Nation.