Prof Joanne Finkelstein
Dean of School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Tel: 020 8331 9767
Email: j.finkelstein@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 025
Recent Publications
As Dean of the School, Joanne Finkelstein is responsible for 85 staff and 2,500 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The school’s broad subject range includes law, journalism, drama, history and sociology. It has a developing research portfolio and a particular emphasis on working with creative and cultural industries in the region.
Professor Finkelstein brings a strong track record in scholarly research, exploring contemporary attitudes to consumption and products such as food, film and fashion. She has a particular interest in the visual imagery of the consumer culture, including labels, advertisements and packaging and has published widely in Australia, USA and Europe. She has recently been a Director of the Board of Food Science Australia, part of Australia’s premier science research organisation CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation).
An experienced academic leader, Joanne Finkelstein was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Victoria University. She has also held a senior management post at the University of Sydney, where she was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and prior to that held teaching and research posts at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. She took her first degree from La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, then a Master in Education from Monash University. She went to the USA for her PhD, studying at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.