George Villanueva
George Villanueva is a Ph.D. candidate in the USC Annenberg School for
Communication and Journalism. He pursues questions about the changing global
context of community, civil society, democracy, and the city. His dissertation will
study issues of sustainable urban development and civic engagement related to the
implementation of the Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) Collaborative project funded
by the HUD Partnership for Sustainable Communities. At USC, he is a researcher for
Metamorphosis, a project studying the transformations of urban communities within the greater Los Angeles area. A 2012 Interdisciplinary Research Group Fellow, his other research interests include communication for social change, community media, phenomenology, visual anthropology, urban studies, and Philippine/ Filipino-American existences. He also is a candidate for the Graduate Certificate in Visual Anthropology. George is currently working on the completion of the visual anthropology program, where he is in the process of producing a CRCC-IRG sponsored visual documentary about the cultural and civic production of the Sainto Niño Ati-Atihan Festival in the Philippines.