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Department/College/UnitHumanities Division

TitleDistinguished Professor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationMusic Department
Latin American & Latino Studies
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Primary Office LocationHumanities Building 1
235

Office HoursWinter 2025: Office hours by appointment. Please email me at ecporter@ucsc.edu to schedule.

Mail StopHumanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

B.A. History, UC Berkeley
M.A. American Studies, University of Michigan
Ph.D. American Studies, University of Michigan

Research Interests

Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies; black radicalism; urban studies.

Selected Publications

Recent books:

• A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport (UC Press)

• Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference [co-edited with Daniel Fischlin] (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

• Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath [co-edited with Daniel Fischlin] (Duke Univesity Press, 2020)