James Clifford taught in UCSC’s History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, literature, and art. The second, Routes (1997) explored the dialectics of dwelling and traveling in post-modernity.

James Clifford is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.