Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Sociocultural Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

Unsettling forms: Animation, alienation, and violence in Berlin

— Co-advisors: Charles L. Briggs & Daniel Fisher;

Committee: Charles Hirschkind, Stefania Pandolfo & Niklaus Largier

Master of Arts in Social Sciences

University of Chicago

"All there is": On reconciliation and the poetics of a singing voice

— Advisor: Michael Silverstein

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with Distinction

University of Alberta

Fellowships & Grants

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Berlin Program Postdoctoral Fellowship

Berlin Program for Advanced German & European Studies,

Freie Universität Berlin

Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant

The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York

John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize

Society of Linguistic Anthropology

One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Berkeley–Freie Universität Mobility Grant

Erasmus+

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York

Regents' Fellowship

University of California, Berkeley

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Diebold Fellowship in Linguistic Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

Master of Arts Tuition Scholarship (full)

University of Chicago

Publications

Alienable gesture

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70029

Un-sitely mediations: A gestural approach to animated citationality

Semiotic Review 10

semioticreview.com

Post-secondary education's chronic problem (OR, it's about time.)

With A. Taylor. In Equity and Social Justice Education Perspectives in Canada, ed. A. Abdi. Canadian Scholars Press.

Parasites and post-truth climate

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 30(1): 4–26

https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12257

(De)constructing the "lazy Indian": An historical analysis of welfare reform in Canada

With R. Taylor-Neu, T. Friedel, A. Taylor & T. Kemble. Aboriginal Policy Journal 8(2): 65–87

http://dx.doi.org/10.5663/aps.v7i2.29340

"All there is": The reconciliatory poetics of a singing voice

American Anthropologist 120(1): 113–125

https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13003

"Trying to square the circle": Research ethics and Canadian higher education

With A. Taylor & S. Butterwick. European Educational Research Journal

https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904118785542

Presentations

Elon's Arm: Notes on the Reanimation of Gesture

American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans

Panel: Gesture: Citations, Resuscitations, and Excitations

Peripheral Visions (invited)

Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

Berlin is (not) Berlin: Reanimations of the City as Ethnographic "Site"

American Anthropological Association Meeting, Toronto

Panel: Fieldwork Technologies – Transitional Histories of Ethnographic Mediation

Un-sitely Mediations

Semiotic Anthropology Conference, Penn University

Unsettling the Score

American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropological Association Meeting, Vancouver

Panel: Othering Images, Images of the Other

A Parasite and Post-Truth Climate

American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington D.C.

Panel: Reality

Teaching

Poetics of Crisis (Instructor)

Reading and Composition — University of California, Berkeley

Introduction to Media Studies (Discussion Leader)

University of California, Berkeley

Anthropology of Animation (Instructor)

Reading and Composition — University of California, Berkeley

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Discussion Leader)

University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Recognitions

Certificate of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

University of California, Berkeley

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

University of California, Berkeley

Engagement

Contributing Editor, Visual & New Media Review

Society for Cultural Anthropology

Co-founder & Co-convener, Armchair Ethnography Working Group

University of California, Berkeley

Co-convener, Anthropological Inquiry Working Group

University of California, Berkeley

Co-convener, Linguistic Anthropology Working Group

University of California, Berkeley

Other Writing

In/visible Routers: A Q&A with Ann-Christin Zuntz

Supplementals, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Digit-al Symptoms

Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association

Absorbing Images

Visual and New Media Review, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Shaka McGlotten on Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life

CaMP Anthropology Blog

Digitally Mediated Intimacies: An Interview with Molly Hales

Supplementals, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Dust Response

Member Voices, Society for Cultural Anthropology

Visual Art & Film

Similar Rubble

Spectral Remix Exhibition, Merchant House Gallery, New Orleans. Video.

Album Cover Illustration for John Borra, Last Dance at The E Room

Animation GIF and Illustrations for Hard-Working Students Project

University of British Columbia

Illustrations for Stephanie Glick, Public Scholars Initiative

University of British Columbia

Graphic Story for Hard-Working Students Project

University of British Columbia

Illustrations for Alberta Stories – Indigenous Stories

SSHRC Partnership Grant

Album Cover Illustrations for John Borra, Blue Wine

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