David MichalskiHumanities and Social Sciences Department
University Library, 100 North West Quad
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
Phone: 530-752-2086, Email: michalski@ucdavis.edu
Professional Membership | Education | Library Experience | Editorial Work | Current Projects | Publications | Conference Papers and Activities | Selected Reviews
Current Projects: Leading investigations into the critical analysis of taste, style, and consumption as played out in leisure and work. These concerns are explored in my dissertation project by focusing on the California wine industry from Prohibition to present. I'm especially interested in learning about theoretical and empirical work on the creation and maintenance of social value and expertise as well as the relations between commodities, geographic representations and material conditions.
"Social Distinction" Encyclopedia of Play, Sage Press. Forthcoming 2009.
"Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits" In Visualizing the City Edited by Alan R Marcus and Dietrich Neumann. Architext Series. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Cosmos and Damian: a World Trade Center Collage, Boston: Bootstrap Productions, 2005.
"Portals to Metropolis: 19th Century Guidebooks and the Assemblage of Urban Experience" Tourist Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, 187-215 (2004) DOI: 10.1177/1468797604057322
“Dreaming in the City of No Illusions: Buffalo’s Great Carnival,” Living Forge: Arts and Culture of the Rustbelt. v. 1 (Fall 2003).
“The Bibliographic Imagination: The 19th Century Origins of the Internet,” Journal of American Culture, 24.3 and 24.4 Winter 2001.
“Cities Memory Voices Collage” Art and The Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection, edited by Richard Cándida-Smith, New York: Routledge, 2002. This collection is reprinted as Text and Image: Art and the Performance of Memory. Philadelphia: Transaction Publishers, 2006.
“Measuring Interdisciplinarity: A Three Tiered Analysis of Cultural Studies” with Aaron Taub, Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Fall 2001.
“Searching Culture: A Bibliometric Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Environment,” with Aaron Taub, MLS Thesis Project, Queens College, CUNY, 2000.
“The Arcades Project: It is the Condition of the Process” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #7, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Fall 2000.
“The Predicament of Anthropology: Reference Support in a Fragmented Discipline,” Katherine Sharp Review, 8 [online.] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Winter 1999. http://wotan.liu.edu/dois/data/Articles/juljuljasy:1999:i:8:p:10957.html
Editor. Working Title: Intercultural Studies, Buffalo: Fly Into The Streets Press, 1994.
A Conversational Sociology: The Social Activist in Buffalo, Master’s Thesis, SUNY at Buffalo, 1994.
11/2001 – present
Social and Cultural Studies Librarian, University Library,University of California, Davis.
Bibliographer for African and African American Studies, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography, Women's and Gender Studies, and Psychology. Serves as a faculty liaison to these academic departments and contributes to the evaluation and selection of local and system wide library resources. Teaches general and specialized information studies classes. Performs face to face and electronic reference interviews with students and faculty. Constructs bibliographies, and user guides. Develops web resources and distance learning initiatives. Participates on planning committees concerning local and University-wide library administration and collection development.
12/2000 – 11/2001
Reference Librarian / Interim Visual Resources Curator, Visual Arts Library, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Conducted reference services. Led information studies classes. Held in-depth reference interviews with students and faculty. Constructed bibliographies and user guides. Developed web resources and digitization project for visual images. Participated on planning committees concerning overall library administration. Worked as a faculty liaison and contributed to the evaluation and selection of library resources.
1996 - 2000
Assistant Visual Resources Curator, Visual Arts Library, School of Visual Arts, NYC.
Managed the use of the 170,000 image collection, including collection development, cataloging, faculty and student reference, and circulation.
Editorial associate. Theory and Society.
Contributing editor, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 1998-
Editor, Streetnotes, http://xcp.bfn.org 1998-
Editor, Working Title: Intercultural Poetics 1993
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies with Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis. Topics of interest: social theory, aesthetics, consumption, urban studies, cultural geography, tourism, food and culture and the sociology of information.
M.L.S., Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, City University of New York, Queens College. Winter 2001. Specialized in art, humanities, and social sciences reference librarianship, information design, collection development, and bibliographic instruction, and digital libraries.
M.A. in American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, Spring 1994. Specialized in cultural studies, visual culture, ethnography and fieldwork.
B.A. in Sociology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Spring 1990. Specialized in historical sociology, social theory, and aesthetics.
Conference Papers and Activities:
Future of Wine History: positioning culture in Robert Mondavi's Mission. Critical Studies in Food and Culture Speaker Series. University of California, Davis February 7, 2008.
Odd Sensibilities at the Wine Bar: the distribution and the desire for the strange in city life. Urban Culture section. Mid-Atlantic Popular/ American Culture Association. Philadelphia, November 2-4, 2007.
Panel Chair: Cross-Cultural Poetics: Embodied Practices and Global Circuits. Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon April 19-21
Panel Chair: Food and Cultural Critique.
Paper: “On the Taste of Place: Positioning Terroir in Consumer Culture”
Cultural Studies Association, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon April 19-21.
"Robert Moses Meets the Mighty Niagara: Aesthetic Collisions at Empire's Edge" Robert Moses: New Perspectives on a Master Builder. Columbia University, NYC March 1-3, 2007
"An Escape from History: Modern Aesthetics and the 1855 Classification of the wines of the Bordeaux" 32nd Annual Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. October 18-21, 2006.
"On the Persistence of Dark Bottles: Modern Aesthetics and the Hesitant Receptivity of Wine”. Founding Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium of UC Davis Faculty and Graduate Students. University of California, Davis. May 3, 2006.
"Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: Exposing the invisible language of consumer culture" Visualising the City. University of Manchester, UK June 26-28, 2005
"Colliding Compositions: The Urban Design of Buffalo New York" North East Popular Culture Conference. November , 2004.
"Employee Entrance: Exposing the invisible language of consumer culture" Paper presentation at the International Visual Sociologists Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 11-13, 2004
"Historical Guidebooks Online" Poster Session at Congress of Cultural Atlases: The Human Record. UC Berkeley, May 7-10, 2004.
"Imaginining the City through Evolving 19th Century Guidebook Displays," Cities of the Mind conference sponsored by the Graduate English Association of the Department of English, University of Toronto, with Innis College, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in January 23-24, 2004
“Portals to Metropolis: The Use of Photography in Nineteenth Century Guidebooks” Paper delivered at International Conference on Tourism and Photography: Still Visions / Changing Lives, Tourism and Cultural Change, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, July 18-23, 2003.
“Portals to Metropolis: Version One.” Paper delivered at Crossing the Boundaries XI: Space and Identity, An Interdisciplinary Conference. State University of New York at Binghamton, July 18-23, 2003.
“The Bibliographic Imagination: The 19th Century Origins of the Internet,” paper presented at the Popular Culture / American Culture Conference in Toronto, Canada, March 2002.
World Trade Center as Social Sculpture, A Symposium at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, October 11, 2001.
Historical Researcher on Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery, documentary directed by Scott Elliott, NY: Mixed Greens, 2002. Summer 2001.
“Bibliography: Mapping Points of Departure and Intersection in Visual Culture,” SVA Art History Symposium on Visual Culture. 2001
"Info-Pop: Disney World as an Information Environment", Paper Presented at Rethinking Disney: Critical Theory, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, November 9-12, 2000.
"The Uses of Oral History In Poetry: Imaginary Conversations and Voice Collages", Paper presented at the Oral History Association Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY October 18, 1998.
Only Ask the Sick, [ Super 8 films] screening and discussion at the Inventions of Identity Symposium at the Poetry Project in New York City, May 1-5, 1998.
"Corporate Collage: The World Trade Center Social Research Experiment". Cross Cultural Poetics Conference, University of Minnesota. October 18-22, 1997.
"World Trade Center Interviews". The American Studies Reunion, SUNY at Buffalo. August 6-8, 1997.
“Review: Anti-Capitalist Dictionary” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #17, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, 2007.
"Review: Comparative Perspectives on E-government: Serving Today and Building for Tomorrow." College and Research Libraries. January 2007, Vol. 68, No. 1
“Review: My Cocaine Museum,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #15/16, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Summer 2005.
“Review: Paris Capital of Modernity ,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #13, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Spring 2004.
“Review: A Brief History of the Future of Libraries,” College & Research Libraries, September 2003.
“Review: Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #12, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Winter 2003.
“Review: Bataille’s Unfinished System of Nonknowledge,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #10, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Spring 2002.
Contributor to American Reference Books Annual, 2001.
“Review: Museum Memories,” Stylus, New York: Visual Arts Press, 2001
“Review: Cultural Studies and Politics,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #9, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Fall 2001.
“Review: The Ends of Globalization,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #8, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Spring 2001.
“Review: Collecting Visual Evidence,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #6, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Spring 2000.
“Review: The Practice of Everyday Life Volume 2,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #5, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Fall 1999.
“Review: Destination Culture,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #4, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, Spring 1999.
“Review: How we Became Posthuman by Katherine Hayles” College Art Association Reviews, Online http://www.caareviews.org/
“Review: The Anxiety of Interdisciplinary edited by Alex Coles” College Art Association Reviews, Online http://www.caareviews.org/
“Review: Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society edited by Clark and Tipton.” College Art Association Reviews, Online http://www.caareviews.org/
“Review: After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #3, Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, 1998.
“Review: Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology,” XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. #1. Minnesota: Cross Cultural Poetics Press, 1997.
American Culture Association, Popular Culture Association, American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Anthropology and Social Science Librarians, Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarians. Critical Studies in Food and Culture, a Davis Humanities Institute Research Cluster.