| Assistant Professors
Miguel Macias
Assistant Professor
Miguel Macias is a radio producer, sound designer, musician and video producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Currently Miguel is an Assistant Professor at the department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College, Director of the Radio Studies Program and faculty supervisor for WBCR (Brooklyn College Radio).
Originally from Sevilla, Spain, Miguel Macias’ life in the U.S. started in January 2001, when he walked into the Television and Radio department at Brooklyn College and met Kathy Napoli (the department’s administrative assistant). During his time as a graduate student in Brooklyn College, Miguel worked as the assistant to Martin Spinelli, then director of the Radio Studies Program. Miguel was deeply involved in the construction of the new studios of Brooklyn College Radio. Also during his time as a student, Miguel worked as a radio instructor at Camp Ballibay for the Performing Arts.
After completing his MFA in Television production, Miguel joined the ranks of New York Public Radio, WNYC, as an Associate Producer for Radio Rookies. There he had the chance to work with students from the Bronx, Queens, Bushwick and many other locations in New York City. For his work with Radio Rookies, Miguel received a Peabody Award in 2006.
After a couple of years working for WNYC, Miguel moved to Los Angeles where he joined the team of American Public Media’s Marketplace. For two years he was the overnight Associate Producer and Director for the Marketplace Morning Report. At Marketplace, Miguel also had the opportunity to travel to the Middle East as the Associate Producer and documentarian for the project The Middle East at Work.
In 2008 Miguel left Marketplace to become the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for Youth Radio. As such, Miguel had the opportunity to train teenagers in South Central LA and East LA. After a year working with Youth Radio, Miguel moved back to New York to join the Brooklyn College faculty.
Miguel is extremely proud to also be a volunteer for the NGO Madre. As such, he has trained indigenous radio reporters in Peru and instructed video editing and multimedia to teenagers in Bogota, Colombia, on two occasions.
Miguel has produced long format radio pieces, features as well as live radio. Among the most important to him is Chasing Love (http://radiofreeradio.net/chasinglove.html), a one-hour radio documentary that explores the relationship between capitalism and romantic love in western society.
Miguel's credits include NPR's All Things Considered, NPR’s Morning Edition, PRI's The World, PRI's This American Life and ABC Radio National.
Always a skeptic, at times a cynic, when no one looks, sometimes, a nihilist, Miguel dreams with one day becoming a revolutionary… or a fireman.
Classes for Spring 2010:
TVR 25.1 Introduction to Radio Production, Tuesday 2:15pm - 6:25pm
TVR 25.4 Sound Design, Wednesday 12:50pm - 3:30pm
TVR 25.4 Sound Design, Thursday 2:15pm - 5:55pm
TVR 733G Sound Design, Wednesday 12:50pm - 3:30pm
TVR 733G Sound Design, Thursday 2:15pm - 5:55pm
Office Hours for Spring 2010:
Mon. 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Tue. 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Thu. 12:00am - 1:00pm
Office: 306 A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 4515
Please contact Professor directly for appointments.
mmacias@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Mobina Hashmi
Assistant Professor
 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006
Mobina Hashmi was previously appointed at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her research interests include the following: science fiction and the cultrual politics of labor; technology and citizenship; critical media; new media and cyberculture.
Recent publications: "Outsourcing the American Dream? Representing the Stakes of IT Globalizaion in America" in Economic and Political Weekly (May 2005).
Teaching interests: Media criticism and history, new media technologies and society, globalization and media, gender and media, race and media, cultural studies, meda and national identity and science-fiction film and television.
She is currently an assistant professor in the department of Television and Radio teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Classes for Spring 2010:
TVR 30.5W Television and Radio Criticism, Monday and Wednesday 12:50pm-2:05pm
TVR 30.5W Television and Radio Criticism, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30pm-10:45am
TVR 710X Media Studies Seminar, Monday 6:30pm-9:15pm
Office Hours for Spring 2010:
Mon. 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Tue. 11:00am - 12:000pm
Office: 405 A
Phone: 718-951-5600 ext. 1961
Please contact Professor directly for appointments.
mhashmi@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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