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CSU Fullerton: Asian or Latin American Cinema (USA)

“JobAssistant Professor of Asian or Latin American Cinema, California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA. Deadline: 1 December 2023; open until filled.

The Department of Cinema and Televisions Arts at California State University, Fullerton, invites applications for a tenure‐track Assistant Professor position in Asian Cinema and Media Studies OR Latin American Cinema and Media Studies with an appointment to begin Fall 2024. The ideal candidate will be able to develop and teach lectures and seminars on topics in Asian or Latin American Cinema including contemporary film and media courses, film history, and film theory courses to undergraduates and to MFA students. Although the primary focus of this position is cinema studies, the ideal candidate might have additional research or teaching experience in Asian or Latin American television/streaming, web-based content, social media, and/or video games, from which to develop courses that meet the current demands of our students.

Tenzin Dorjee Profile

ProfilesTenzin Dorjee (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Communication Studies, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). His primary teaching and research interests are in intergroup, intercultural, intergenerational communication, identity issues, peace building, and conflict resolution.
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He has authored and co-authored  peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Tibetan culture, identity, and communication, nonviolence and middle way approaches to Sino-Tibetan conflict, intergenerational communication context, and others. He was awarded Faculty Teacher-Scholar Award in 2011, Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2013, Annual Author Award in 2014, Faculty Recognition Service: Extraordinary and Sustained Service in 2015, and Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity in 2016  by CSU Fullerton.  He is also a published author of articles and translated works of Tibetan Buddhism and culture into English.  He worked as a translator at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, India, for over 13 years.  He is also a published author of articles and  translated works of Tibetan Buddhism and culture into English. He had the honor to translate for many pre-eminent Tibetan Buddhist Professors including His Holiness the Dalai Lama in India and North America. He is a former  Member-At –Large in the Executive Council of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), Chair of WSCA’s Distinguished Teaching Award Committee, Basic Course Director of the Department of Human Communication Studies, CSUF, and Vice President and President of the Tibetan  Association of Southern California. He has served on the Dalai Lama Trust Graduate Scholarship Selection Committee and Restorative Schools Vision Project, Sacramento.  In the summer of 2013, he volunteered over two months at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and in the summer of 2016, he volunteered teaching intercultural communication, teaching pedagogy, and research methodology at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, India, and the Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education, Bengaluru, India.. During his summer sojourns in India, he also gave series of invited talks on a wide range of intercultural themes such as such as Tibetan culture and  identity,  and , translation  methodology at many Tibetan institutions including the Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration Staff, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives,  Institute of Buddhist Dialectics,  and Tibetan Astro-Medical College, Dharamsala, India.

Selected publications:

Dorjee, T. (2015)  Communication accommodation theory. In J. Bennett, The Sage encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 103-107). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dorjee, T. (2015)  Identity and  intergroup communication. In J. Bennett, The Sage encyclopedia of intercultural competence (pp. 410-414). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dorjee, T. (2005). Transmitting cultural identity from generation to generation in Tibetan diaspora. In W. Leeds-Hurwitz (Ed.), From generation to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over time (pp. 227-253). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.