ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY FOR JAY RUBY
I. Education
1953 Oak Park High School [Illinois]
1960 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., History
1962 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., Anthropology
1970 University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., Anthropology
II. Academic Positions
1961 Research Assistant, Archaeological Survey, UCLA
1961-2 Museum Technician, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
1962-4 Survey Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey, UCLA
1962-3 Staff Archaeologist, Sudanese Nubian Project, UCLA
1964-5 Lecturer, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
1965-7 Lecturer, Anthropology, University of California, Davis
1967-9 Instructor, Anthropology, Temple University
1969-77 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Temple University
1977-1993 Associate Professor, Anthropology, Temple University
1994 Professor, Anthropology, Temple University
Visiting Professorships: Rutgers University [1971]; University of Pennsylvania [1972-4]; and Princeton University [1976].
III. Editorships
1961-3 UCLA Archaeological Survey Annual Reports
1967-71 Jazz and Pop Magazine
1969-76 PIEF and SAVICOM Newsletter s
1972-3 Words and Music Magazine
1977-85 Studies in Visual Communication
1987-90 Visual Anthropology
IV. Major Advising and Board Memberships
1969-73 Executive Secretary, Program in Ethnographic Film
1970-2 Advisory Board, Thiele Center for Popular American Music, Lawrenceville, NJ
1971 Director, Summer Institute in Visual Anthropology, Santa Fe. [NSF]
1971-90 Advisor, Trustee and President, International Film Seminars
1972-7 President, Society for the Anthropology of Visual Communication
1972-85 Advisor, Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Nashville
1972-80 Advisor, Center for Southern Folklore
1977-9 Member, Honorary Committee, Margaret Mead Film Festival
1992-1996 Member, Pennsylvania Humanities Council
1992- Member, International Advisory Committee, Mead Festival
1995-1997 Chair, Pennsylvania Humanities Council
1998 Member, International Documentary Association Conference Advisory Board
V. Film Programming and Juries
1968-8 Director, Conferences on Visual Anthropology
1977 Program Director, Arden House Public Television Seminar
1978 Program Director, Flaherty Film Seminar
1981-5 Program Director, International Visual Communication Conferences
1987 Member, of Jury, Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy.
1989 President of Jury, Parnü Visual Anthropological Film Festival, Estonia.
1996 Jury Member, IWF Festival, Göttingen, Germany
VI. Photographic Exhibitions
1970-80 Curator, Conference on Visual Anthropology, Photographic Exhibitions
1980 Curator, "The Human Condition." Conference on Visual Anthropology;
Los Angeles Museum of Natural History; and Anthropology Film Center, Santa Fe
1985 Curator, "Images of the USA 1920-1940: Three European Photographers."
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania , Amerikahaus, Stuttgart.
1986-7 Curator, "Reflections on Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Landscape Photography."
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.; University of Pennsylvania.; and Dickinson College, Pa.
1988 Curator, "Fragments of A Dream: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs."
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
1994 Curator, "Something to Remember You By: Death and Photography in America." Southeast
Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
1996 Curator, "Not A Bad Shot: The Photographs of Frances Cooper. Woodmere Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA.
VII. Films - [Screening History available.]
1984 Executive Producer, Co-Producer/Director/Writer/Researcher.
A Country Auction: The Paul V. Leitzel Estate Sale .
1985 Co-Producer/Director/Researcher, Can I get A Quarter?
VIII. Publications - Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
1961a Surface Collections From Two Coastal Sites, Los Angeles County. Archaeological Survey Annual
Report, Los Angeles, pgs. 179 - 189.
1961b Excavations at Zuma Mesa [Lan-40]. Archaeological Survey Annual Report, Los Angeles , pgs. 190 - 232.
1962 Aboriginal Uses of Mt. San Jacinto State Park. Archaeological Survey Annual Report, pgs. 1 - 10.
1963 With Wayne Alexander. Preliminary Report on the 1963 Excavations at Evans Mound, Summit,
Utah. Nevada State Museum, Anthropological Papers , No. 9:17 32.
1964a Report of the Archaeological Investigation at Dabnarti. A Middle Kingdom Egyptian Fortress.
Kush , the journal of the Sudanese Antiquities Service, Khartoum.
1964b Excavations at One Horse Spring Rock Shelter, Riverside County. Archaeological Survey Annual
Report , Los Angeles.
1964c The Occurrence of Southwestern Pottery in Los Angeles County, American Antiquity 30[2]:209.
1966 The Big Tujunga Site. Archaeological Survey Annual Report, Los Angeles.
1969 Visual Anthropology. Journal, University Film Association XXI[3]:68-71.
1970a Anthropological Film: Prospects and Promises. Rural Africana, No. 12:13-17.
1970b A Bibliography of Film and Anthropology. Rural Africana , No. 12:18-28.
1970c With Carroll Williams and Tim Asch. Notes on Anthropological Film.
Rural Africana , No. 12:29-41.
1970d Censorship, Nudity and Obscenity in American Popular Music: Interviews with the Chambers
Brothers, Donovan, Canned Heat, Randy Newman, Roger McGuinn, and Creedence Clearwater
Revival. In Rock Giants, Pauline Rivelli, Editor. World Publishing Co., N.Y.
1971 Towards an Anthropological Cinema. Film Comment , 7[1]:35-40.
1973 Up the Zambesi with Notebook and Camera or Being an Anthropologist without Doing
Anthropology...with Pictures. PIEF Newsletter 4 [3].
1974 With R. Chalfen. The Teaching of Visual Anthropology at Temple. SAVICOM Newsletter 5.
1975 Is an Ethnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography? Studies In The Anthropology of
Visual Communication 2[2]: 104-111.
1976a In a Pic's Eye: Interpretive Strategies for Deriving Significance and Meaning from Photographs.
Afterimage , 3[9]:5-7. [Reprinted in 1977 in "Working Papers in Culture and Communication," Vol. 1,
No. 2, Temple University.]
1976b Anthropology and Film: The Social Science Implications of Regarding Film as Communication.
Quarterly Review of Film Studies , Vol. 1, No. 4:436-445. [ Reprinted in 1977 in "Film and The
Humanities," John O'Conner, Editor.Working Papers, The Rockefeller Foundation, pgs. 56-63. ]
1977 The Image Mirrored: Reflexivity and the Documentary Film. Journal, University Film
Association , XXIX[4]:3-13. [ Reprinted in 1988 in New Challenges To Documentary , Alan Rosenthal,
Editor. Berkeley: University of California Press. ]
1978 The Celluloid Self. In Autobiography: Film/Video/Photography. John Katz, Editor.
Art Gallery of Ontario, pgs. 7-10.
1979a The Aggie Will Come First: The Demystification of Robert Flaherty. In Robert J. Flaherty -
Photographer/Filmmaker . Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, editor. Vancouver Art Gallery,
pgs. 67-74, 94-96.
1979b Philosophical Toys - A Theory of Anthropology and Film. Proceedings of the
International Visual Literacy Association Meetings, Rochester.
1980a Show and Tell: Scholars and Film, Humanities Review , 1[2]:14-15.
1980b Exposing Yourself: Reflexivity, Anthropology and Film. Semiotica , 3[1-2]:153-179. [Translated into Spanish in 1996 as Revelarse a sí mismo: reflexividad, antropología y cine. In Imagen y Cultura: Perspectivas del Cine Ethografico , Elisenda Ardévol y Luis Pérex Tolon, eds. Granada: Diputacion de Granda, pg.s 161-202.]
1980c Introduction: A Re-evaluation of Robert J. Flaherty, Photographer and Filmmaker.
Studies in Visual Communication , Vol. 6, No. 2:3-5.
1980d Franz Boas and Early Camera Study of Behavior. Kinesis Reports 3[1]:6 11.
1981a Introduction. Photographs of the Piegan by Roland Reed. Studies in Visual
Communication , 7[1]:48-63.
1981b With Sol Worth. An American Community's Socialization to Pictures: An Ethnography of
Visual Communication. In Studying Visual Communication , Larry Gross, Editor. University of
Pennsylvania Press, Phila, pgs. 200-203.
1981c Seeing Through Pictures: The Anthropology of Photography. Camera Lucida , 3:20-33.
[ Reprinted in 1981 in Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies, , Vol. 1, No. 4:3.16. ]
1981d A Re-examination of the Early Career of Robert J. Flaherty. Quarterly Review of Film Studies ,
5[4]:431-457.
1981e Beyond Realism/Formalism: Toward a New Role for Film in Anthropology.
Journal of VisualVerbal Languaging , 1[1]:49-60.
1982a With Barbara Myerhoff. Introduction. A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology . University of Pennsylvania Press, Phila., pgs. 1-38. [Reprinted in 1992 as A Crack in the Mirror: in Remembered Lives: The Work of Ritual Storytelling ,and Growing Older . by Barbara Myerhoff, Marc Kaminsky, editor. University of Michigan Press, pgs. 307-340]
1982b Ethnography as Trompe L'Oeil: Anthropology and Film. In A Crack In The Mirror . University of
Pennsylvania Press, Phila. pgs. 121-132.
1982c Visual Ethnography. In The Last and the First Eskimos : A catalog of Alex Harris' Photographs.
International Center for Photography, N.Y.
1982d An Anthropologist Looks at Photography in Juniata County, Pa. Photographica.
1982e Images of the Family: The Symbolic Implications of Animal Photography. Phototherapy , 3[2]:2-7. [Reprinted in 1983 in New Perspectives on Our Lives with Companion Animals. Aaron Katcher and Alan Beck, Editors. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,, pgs. 135-147.]
1983b The United States View Co. of Richfield, Pa. Studies in Visual Communication 9 [4]:45-64.
1983c An Early Attempt at Studying Human Behavior with a Camera: Franz Boas and The Kwakiutl:
1930. In Methodology in Anthropological Film Making. Nico C.R. Bogaart and Henk Ketelaar,
Editors. Edition Herodot, Gottingen, Germany, pgs. 25-38.
1984a Post-Mortem Portraiture in America. History of Photography 8[3]:201-222.
1984b Photographic View Companies: The Camera Leaves the Studio. Pennsylvania Heritage X[4]:26-31.
1984c The Other Worlds of Joe Steinmetz. Studies in Visual Communication 10[4]:61-75.
1985a Festival Dei Popoli 1984: 25th Annual Film Festival. Anthropology Today 1[2]:25-6.
1985b Images of the U.S.A: An Introduction; Interview with Bernd Lohse; Harald Lechenperg --
Photojournalist. Studies in Visual Communication 11[ 2].
1985c Francis Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer. Studies in Visual Communication 11[4]:12-29.
1986a Introduction and Francis Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer. Reflections on Nineteenth Century
Pennsylvani a Landscape Photography . Exhibit catalog, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
1986b The Future of Anthropological Cinema -- A Modest Polemic. Visual Sociology Review 1[2]:9-13.
1987a Bernd Lohse's Pictures of America, 1937. Framework 1 [1]:5-15.
1987b L'Uso del Film Ethnografico Nelle Schole Superiori Come Materiale Didattico per
L'Insegnamento delle Scienze Umane. [The Use of Ethnographic Film in Secondary Schools as a
Teaching Aid in the Human Sciences.] 28th Festival dei Popoli Catalog, Florence, Italy, pgs. 136-141. [ Reprinted in Teaching Visual Anthropology. Paolo Chiozzi, editor. Firenze: Editice "Il Sedicesimo" 1989]
1987/8 Portraying The Dead. Omega 19[1]: 1-20.
1988a With Janis Essner. Robert J. Flaherty. Arctic Profiles pages 354-356. [Reprinted in 1996 in Lobsticks and
Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic , Richard C. Davis, editor. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pages
36-38.]
1988b The Ethics of Imagemaking. In New Challenges To Documentary , Alan Rosenthal, Editor.
Berkeley: University of California Press. [ Reprinted in 1988 in Perspectives on Film and Video,
Maria Leavey, editor. University Park: Pennsylvania State University.]
1988c Francis Cooper - A Turn-of-the-Century Cycling and Photographic Enthusiast. The Wheelman ,
No. 33: 27-30.
1988d Images of Rural America. History of Photography 12[4]:327-343.
1989a The Emperor and His Clothes. SVA Newsletter 5[1]: 9-11.
1989b The Equilbriums of Paradox: The Pittsburgh Photographs of W. Eugene Smith. Insight 1[4]: 4-10.
1989c Ethnographic Film. Encylopedia of Communication , Erik Barnouw, editor. New York: Oxford
University Press.
1989d Robert Gardner und der anthropologische Film. In Ritual von Leben und Tod: Robert Gardner und
seine Filme . R.Kapfer. W. Petermann und R. Thoms, Hrsg. Munchen: Trickster Verlag. [Reprinted in a slightly revised form in 1991 as An Anthropological Critique of the Films of Robert Gardner. Journal of
Film and Video Vol. 43, No. 4:3-17.]
1989e The Teaching of Visual Anthropology. Teaching Visual Anthropology , Paolo Chiozzi, editor.
Firenze: Editrice "Sedicesimo." pgs. 9-18.
1990a William Culp Darrah - A Remembrance. The Photo Review , Vol. 12, No. 4.[ Reprinted in Shadows
and Substance: Essays in Honor of Heinz Henisch . Kathleen Collins, editor.]
1990b The Wheelman and the Snapshooter or, the Industrialization of the Picturesque
Shadows and Substance: Essays in Honor of Heinz Henisch . Kathleen Collins, editor
1990c The Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and the Anthropology of Visual Communication. In
Communication & Tradition: Essays After Eric Michaels, Tom O'Regan, editor. Continuum ,
[3]2: 53-98. [Reprinted in 1991 in a slightly revised form as Eric Michaels: An Appreciation. Visual
Anthropology 4[3-4]:325-344]
1990d With Tom O'Regan. Eric Michaels: A Partial Guide to his Written Work. In Communication &
Tradition: Essays After Eric Michaels, Tom O'Regan, editor. Continuum , [3]2: 226-228.
1990e Eye-Witnessing: Humanism, Ethnography and Film. CVA Review [Fall]:12-16.
1991a Photographs, Memory, and Grief. Illness, Crises and Loss , [1]1:1-5.
1991b Sharing The Power - A Multivocal Documentary/Delen in de macht - De meerstemmige documentaire. Perspektief , No. 41: 4-17. [Translated into Finnish as Monikeskeinen Dokumentti -- Vallan Jakaminen in Valokuvauksen Vuosikirja 1991 [Finnish Photographic Yearbook 1991] Helsinki, pages 48-64]
1991c Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside: An Anthropological and
Documentary Dilemma. Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 7, No. 2:50-67. [Reprinted in 1992 in
Journal of Film and Video ,Vol. 44, Nos. 1-2:42-66]
1992 Introduction. The Media as a Forum for Community Building: Cases from Africa, Asia, Latin
America, and the United States . Hamid Mowlana and Margaret Hardt Frondorf, editors.
Washington, D.C.: John Hopkins University. pg.s vii-ix.
1993 Who Can Image Whom? Media & Culture: The Newsletter for the Virginia Center for Media and
Culture , [1]2:8-11.
1995a The Viewer Viewed: The Reception of Ethnographic Films. In The Construction of the Viewer:
Media Ethnography and the Anthropology of Audiences , Peter Crawford and Sigurjon Hafsteinsson,
editors. Hojbjerg: Intervention Press, pgs. 193-206. [Reprinted in Reader, No. 31:75-87.]
1995b Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch. Visual Anthropology Review , vol. 11, no. 1:19-37.
1995c The Moral Burden of Authorship in Ethnographic Film. Visual Anthropology Review [11]2:1-6.
1995d Post-Mortem Portraiture in America. In Intimations of Mortality , Stephanie Brown and Stephen
Hobson, editors. Devon, UK: Available Light, pgs.48-59.
1995e Visual Anthropology. Encylopedia of Cultural Anthropology.
1996a Recollections of the Flaherty Film Seminar. "The Flaherty: Four Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema. A special issue of Wideangle , vol. 17, nos. 1-4, Edited by Erik Barnouw and
Patricia Zimmerman, pgs. 62-66.
1996b Third Voice Films. In The Documentary: Strangely Compelling, M. Delofski and J. Mills, editors. Media International Australia , No. 82: 12-18.
2001 Retratando os mortos. In Imagem e Memoria: Ensairos em Antropologia Visual , Koury, Mauro, editor. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, pgs 95-112 (An excerpt from Secure the Shadow , translated into Portuguese).
2002 The Professionalization of Visual Anthropology in the United States, The 1960s and 1970s. Visual Anthropology Review , vol. 17, No. 2:5-12.
2005a Introduction. In Passing: A Book About Death , Todd Herman, editor. San Francisco: The Dancing Tree.
2005b Jean Rouch: Hidden and Revealed. American Anthropologist 107(1):113-115.
2005c The Last Twenty Years of Visual anthropology - A Critical Review. Visual Studies , vol. 20, no. 2, pgs. 159-170.
IX. Publications - Books, Catalogs, CDROMs, and Monographs
1980 Editor, The Human Condition . Catalog of the Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple
University, Philadephia.
1982 Editor, A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
1983 Editor, Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography . Written by Paul Rotha. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
1985 Editor, Images of the U.S.A. 1920 - 1940 : Three European Photographers: Emil O. Hoppe, Harald
Lechenperg, Bernd Lohse . Exhibition Catalog, University of Pennsylvania, Phila.
1986 Editor, Reflections on Nineteenth Century Pennsylvani a Landscape Photography .
Exhibit catalog, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
1987 Editor, with Martin Taureg. Visual Explorations of the World: Selected Proceedings
of the International Visual Communication Conference . Rader Verlag, Gottingen.
1988a Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects
in Photographs, Film and Television . New York: Oxford University Press.
1988b Fragments of a Dream: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs . Exhibit Catalog.
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
1992a Editor, The Cinema of Jean Rouch . New York: Gordon and Breech [originally appeared 1989 as
Vol. 2, Nos. 3-4 of Visual Anthropology ].
1992b Editor, The Films of John Marshall . New York: Gordon & Breech.
1995 Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America . Cambridge: MIT Press.
1999 The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer . University Park:
Penn State University Press.
1999 compiled with Linda A. Ries. Directory of Pennsylvania Photographers, 1839-1900 . Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission.
2000 Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology . Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2002 Co-Editor with Harald Prins. The Origins of Visual Anthropology. Special Issue of Visual Anthropology Review , vol. 17, no. 2.
2003 Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics in the Digital World.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2005 The Taylor Family: An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
2005 Rebekah and Sophie: A Lesbian Family: An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
X. Music, Film, and Book Reviews
1967- Present Reviews in: American Anthropologist; Bulletin, Philadelphia Anthropological Society; Jazz and Pop Magazine; Words and Music Magazine; Journal of Communication; Studies in Visual Communication; Journal of Ethnomusicological Society; Qualitative Sociology; Quarterly Review of Film Studies; History of Photography; Journal of Film and Video; Visual Anthropology Review; Visual Sociology Review; Visual Sociology , Appalachian Journal.
XI. Selected Symposia Organized and Papers Given -- Great Basin Conference; Southwestern Anthropological Ass'n.; Society for American Archaeology; American Anthropological Ass'n.; University Film and Video Ass'n.; American Folklore Society; Society for Applied Anthropology; International Visual Literacy Ass'n.; Society for Photographic Education; American Studies Ass'n.; International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; International Communication Association and Visible Evidence Conference, Duke University; Visible Evidence II, University of Southern California; Advanced Seminar in Visual Anthropology, School of American Research, Santa Fe; Society for Cinema Studies.
XII. Selected L ectures -- Mills College, Rock and Roll Conference (1967); SUNY, Buffalo, Popular Music Festival and Conference (1968); University of Wisconsin, National Youth Music Festival (1969); Yale University (1974); Sinking Creek Film Celebration (1972, 1976); University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, National Conference on the Teaching of Film (1976); Rockefeller Foundation's Conference on Film and the Humanities (1976); M. Mead Film Festival (1977, 1990, 1992, 1993); Wesleyan University; UCLA; University of California, San Diego; Stockton State College; Australian Ethnographic Film Conference (1978); L'Image Conference, Paris (1979); Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (1980); Athens Film Conference (1980); Murrow Symposium, Washington State University (1981); Intercongress, Amsterdam (1981); International Center for Photography (1980, 1982); Dickinson College (1982, 1986); Visual Studies Workshop (1981); Philadelphia College of Art (1982); Global Village (1981, 1983); Film In The Cities, St. Paul (1983, 1989); Penn State University (1984, 1987, 1988, 1989); Festival Dei Popoli, Florence (1984, 1986, 1987); University of Calgary (1987); Landis Valley Museum (1987); Penn State Middletown (1987); Bennington College (1988); California State, Fullerton (1989); University of Helsinki (1989); University of Southern California (1990); Fotografie Binnalle Rotterdam (1990); Flaherty Riga Seminar, Latvia (1990); California Museum of Photography (1990); American University (1991); First Nordic Conference on Photographic Studies, Finland (1991); University of Palermo (1991); University of Stockholm (1991); Linköping University(1991); Academy of Mediterrean Studies, Argigento, Italy (1992): Johns Hopkins University (1992); University of Delaware (1993); Virgina Center for Media and Culture (1993); Visible Evidence, Duke U. Conference on Documentary Film Theory (1993); Southeast Museum of Photography (1994); Visible Evidence II, USC (1994); University of Colorado (1995); NAFA, Bergen, Norway and IWF Festival, Gottingen, Germany (1996), Image Ethics Conference, Vevey, Switzerland (1998), Oxford University, 2000; Origins of Visual Anthropology Conference, Göttingen, Germany (2001); Conference on Feast Days, Images, and Powers, Taormina, Italy (2001), RAI Film Festival, Oxford (2005), Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, Finland (2005)..
XIII. Field Research
1. Archaeological excavations in California, Mexico, Utah, and the Sudan from 1959-1966
2. Ethnographic Field Research in Central Pennsylvania from 1964 to the present.
3. Ethnographic Field Research in Oak Park, IL from 1998 to the present.
XIV. Research Funding - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; Pennsylvania Humanities Council; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Private Donors; and Temple University.
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