Jennifer Basquiat

Professor

Dr. Jennifer Basquiat received her B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles in Communication Studies and her second M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School in Cultural Studies. She teaches a variety of courses in the Communication department, but primarily focuses on Survey of Communication Studies, Culture and Communication and Oral Communication. In addition, she also teaches Cultural Anthropology.

Professionally, she considers herself to be a critical ethnographer above all and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Haiti where she lived during her doctoral research. She is interested in cultural identity as it is informed by religion. Her doctoral dissertation, Between Eternal Truth and Local Culture: Performing Mormonism in Haiti, explored the connection between Haitian culture, Vodou and Mormonism. Portions of this dissertation have been published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She has also had her research regarding Mormon feminism published in The Harvard Divinity School’s Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion for which she was awarded the journal’s prestigious New Scholar Award in 2001. Most recently, she was invited to participate in the Oxford Round Table addressing global immigration held at Oxford University, March 2007.

For more information please contact:
Phone: (702) 651-7421
Fax: (702) 651-5938
Email: jennifer.basquiat@csn.edu