Name: Elana Zilberg
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Email: ezilberg@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Media Center/Communications Building (MCC) 206
Phone: (858) 534-2946

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2002

Field of Expertise:
Elana Zilberg's research interests lie at the borders of anthropology and cultural geography, and of Latino and Latin American Studies. Her current work on the policing and deportation of Salvadoran immigrant gang (affiliated, alleged and affected) youth and their reception in El Salvador, examines the production of transnational space and identity at the nexus of migration, violence and security. She also works on communication and consumption networks between immigrants in the US and their families in Latin America. She teaches courses on representation, consumption, violence, space and place, cultural poetics, globalization, neoliberalism, and ethnography.

Regions of Interest: Central America, El Salvador

Selected Publications:
Transnational Geographies of Violence: An Inter-American Encounter from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Forthcoming with Duke University Press 2009.

"Inter-American Ethnography: Tracking Salvadoran Transnationality at the Borders of Latino and Latin American Studies" in Companion to Latino Studies Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo, eds. Oxford: Blackwell (2007).


"Refugee Gang Youth: Zero Tolerance and the Security State in Contemporary US-Salvadoran Relations", in Youth, Law and Globalization, Sudhir Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press (2007).


"Gangster in Guerilla Face: The Political Folklore of Doble Cara in Post-Civil War El Salvador," in Anthropological Theory. Yael Navarro and Kay Warren, eds. (Vol. 7 No. 1, March 2007).