Year	Degree	Institution
	MFA	University of California Los Angeles
	Ph.D.	University of California Los Angeles

Hamid Naficy, John Evans Professor of Communication, comes to Northwestern from Rice University. Professor Naficy received his Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA in film and television production and his Ph.D. from UCLA in critical studies of film and television. He has produced many educational films and experimental videos and has published extensively about theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinema and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas. His many publications include such well-known titles as An Accented Cinema, The Making of Exile Cultures, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, Iran Media Indexand the AFI anthology, Home, Exile, Homeland. Professor Naficy will teach his first seminar in the program during the Winter ’07 term.

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