Contributing Editors create, edit, and curate digital content for the SCA website and social media feeds. Many of our innovative streams of web content started as the brainchild of one or two Contributing Editors, and the SCA prides itself on empowering and learning from early-career scholars. Through their participation in the Program, graduate students and recent PhDs also build networks across institutions and take part in mentoring and professionalization activities.
Program Coordinators
Fieldsights Editor, 2020–2022
Shaozeng Zhang
Oregon State University | [email protected]
Shaozeng Zhang's long-term research focuses on Amazon forest conservation and the carbon market in the context of global climate change. Recently, he has been developing work on digital technologies, such as computer games and online social media. He is interested in integrating anthropological methodology into user-generated big data analysis and is currently working on an NSF-funded project on the optimization of social fairness in artificial intelligence (AI) design.
Editorial Assistant
Erin Gould
Johnson County Community College | [email protected]
Research Interests: Youth; storytelling; performance; festivals; language; space; transformation; revival; Morocco; Middle East; pedagogy and innovations in teaching
Lead Contributing Editor and Contributing Editor
Noha Fikry
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Human-animal relations; anthropology of food; Middle-East; ethnography; narrative and writing
Student Representative
Shahana Munazir
University of Wisconsin-Madison | [email protected]
Research interests: Gender, ethics, anthropology of Islam, anthropology of care, future, migration, ethnography, South Asia, India
AnthroPod
Section Editor
Michelle Hak Hepburn
University of British Columbia | [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental imaginaries; anthropology beyond the human; Americas; feminisms; deforestation; restoration; coloniality
Section Editor
Nick Smith
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Urban mobility; public space; humanitarian sociality; futurity; precariousness
Section Editor
Alejandro Echeverria
University of California, Riverside | [email protected]
Research Interests: Citizenship; queerness; geographies; race; soundscapes
Contributing Editor
Sharon Jacobs
University of Pennsylvania | [email protected]
Research Interests: Solidarity and social movements; migration, asylum, and refugeehood; feminism and postcoloniality; Middle Eastern diaspora; Europe; Arabic language and linguistics
Contributing Editor
Marie Melody Vidal
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris | [email protected]
Research Interests: Sensory ethnography; the United States; gender; aging; anthropology of the contemporary
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Clara Beccaro
The New School for Social Research | [email protected]
Research Interests: Bodily integrity; social formations; France; disability; transness; dissonance; materiality
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Deborah Philip
The Graduate Center, City University of New York | [email protected]
Research Interests: Home; temporality; race; colonialism, nationalism; Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean
Contributing Editor
Ximena Málaga Sabogal
New York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Media; radio; sound; post-conflict societies; reparations; language ideologies; Quechua; Andes; Peru
Contributing Editor
Hae-Seo Kim
University of California, Irvine | [email protected]
Research Interests: Outer Space; ecology; oceans and islands; futurity; Korea; science and technology studies; Korean Shamanism
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Steffen Hornemann
University of Oslo | [email protected]
Research Interests: Technology and digital cultures; infrastructure; space and time; cities; labor; the body and the senses; bureaucracy
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Adwaita Banerjee
University of Pennsylvania | [email protected]
Research Interests: Urban Habitats; Social Inequality; Environmental Transitions; Petrocultures; Waste Ecologies.
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Esther Neira
Queen's University Belfast | [email protected]
Research Interests: borders; migration; transactional sex; humanitarian governance; and Venezuelan migration in Colombia.
Contributing Editor
Yichi Zhang
University of St Andrews | [email protected]
Research Interests: Love and emotional experiences across generations of Chinese community in Jamaica; migration; and literary anthropology.
Contributing Editor
Daillen Culver
Research Interests: Latin America; sustainable agriculture; anthropology of food; new age spirituality; indigenous cosmologies; visual anthropology; mental health and wellbeing
Member Voices
Section Editor
Riddhi Pandey
The Graduate Institute, Geneva | [email protected]
Research Interests: Everyday carceral experiences; prison writings and art; visual and material culture; creative ethnographic writing; South Asia; India
Section Editor
Janita Van Dyk
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Temporality; neoliberalism; ecology; alternative agriculture; politics of (bio)diversity; food; Italy
Contributing Editor
Bulelani Jili
Harvard University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Africa-China relations; ICT development; cybersecurity; African political economy; internet policy; Chinese business law; law and development
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Saumya Pandey
University of Ghent, Belgium and CMI, Norway | [email protected]
Research Interests: Resource extraction; inequality; work; welfare; development; feminist thought; and ethics and politics of knowledge-making practices.
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Augusto de Britto Velho
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | [email protected]
Research Interests: Judicialization; sports; soccer; World Cup; private courts; commodification
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Poornima Rajeshwar
Stanford University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Economy; measurement; poverty; work; urban anthropology; ethics; subjectivity
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Hatim Rachdi
Yale University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Indigeneity; intersections of gender, sexuality, affect, and state repression; feminist scholarship and activism; queer studies; Amazigh; Morocco; Middle East; North Africa
Contributing Editor
Chloe Warpinski
University of Florida | [email protected]
Research Interests: Policy; bureaucracy; rurality; biomedicine; United States
Contributing Editor
Alexandra Kaul
Writer | [email protected]
Research Interests: Ecology; memory; white supremacy; war; STS; political economy; Germany; the Pacific Northwest
Social Media
Section Editor
Adam Fleischmann
McGill University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Global anthropogenic climate change; politics; science; ethics; knowledge; philosophy; nonstate political actors; social movement studies; science and technology studies; history of science; pedagogy
Section Editor
Scott Ross
George Washington University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Humanitarianism; infrastructure; conflict; technology; intervention; Congo; Uganda
Contributing Editor
Breanna S. Escamilla
University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign | [email protected]
Research Interests: Womxn of color feminisms; gender/sexuality; digital ethnography; ethics; media and culture; race/ethnicity; Chicanx/Latinx studies; popular culture
Contributing Editor
Kristin Gupta
Rice University | [email protected]
Kristin is a doctoral candidate at Rice University, where her dissertation follows the emergence of death doulas in the United States. Other Research Interests: care, capitalism, queer theory, STS, and medical anthropology.
Contributing Editor
Hannah E. Quinn
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Disability; ableism; personhood; intimacy; sexuality; sexual ethics; capacity to consent; social contract; solidarity; violence; research ethics; sensory and experimental ethnography
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Lachlan Summers
University of California, Santa Cruz | [email protected]
Research Interests: Political ecology; prefigurative politics; insurance; chance; trauma; imagination and play; México
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Parag Jyoti Saikia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | [email protected]
Research interests: Infrastructure; Fluvial Life; Temporality; Hydropower; Dam; Frontier; South Asia; Northeast India.
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Sohini Chatterjee
The University of Western Ontario | [email protected]
Research interests: queer and trans activism; critical disability studies; queer cultural studies; resistance movements in India.
Contributing Editor
Jimil Ataman
University of Pennsylvania | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of capitalism and consumerism; feminist politics and ethics of care; digital anthropology and social media ethnography; fashion and the politics of wearing, buying and making clothes.
Teaching Tools
Section Editor
Dana McLachlin
University of Amsterdam | [email protected]
Research Interests: Humanitarianism; postcolonialism; gender, race, and class; Bangladesh; economic anthropology
Contributing Editor
Prerna Srigyan
University of California, Irvine | [email protected]
Research Interests: Science pedagogy; radical pedagogy; science and technology studies; environmental justice
Lead Contributing Editor and Contributing Editor
Noha Fikry
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Human-animal relations; anthropology of food; Middle-East; ethnography; narrative and writing
Contributing Editor
Himani Rathore
Emory University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental change; Himalayan landscape and community; land and water relationships; post humanist subjectivities; feminist methods and praxis in environmental anthropology.
Contributing Editor
Margaret Tebbe
University of California, Irvine | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of childhood; environmental justice; pedagogy; anthropology of education; engaged research; knowledge production
Contributing Editor
Nikita Taniparti
Princeton University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Economic development; macroeconomics; state and public policy; capitalism; mining and extraction; green energies and technologies; politics of memory; Africa
Contributing Editor
Fanny Teissandier
McGill University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; psychiatry; migration; colonialism; race; theories of the nation-state; aesthetics; queer theory; France; Canada
Contributing Editor
Sara Hosseini
McGill University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Gender; female labor; temporality; precarity; Political Economy; rural studies; Iran
Contributing Editor
Surya Pratap Deka
University of Cambridge | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of ethics; well-being; refugeehood; education; childhood; pedagogy; geographies; ethnographic writing
Contributing Editor
Sampurna Das
University of Delhi | [email protected]
Research Interests: Sociology of uncertainty; Political Ecology; river ecologies; gender; climate change; governance; ethnography
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Hema Vaishnavi Ale
King's College London | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of climate change; heat; climate politics and governance; environmental crises and movements; medical anthropology; South Asia; India
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Madhulika Sonkar
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi | [email protected]
Research Interests: Ethnography of educational spaces; decolonial pedagogies; anthropology of childhood and youth; gender; media
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Jay Sharma
Syracuse University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Development; indigeneity; bureaucracy; social movement; citizenship; Adivasi studies; South Asia; India
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Miranda Tuckett
The New School for Social Research | [email protected]
Research Interests: Death; dying; intimacy; narrative; writing; ethics; representation; situated knowledge and learning; imagination; affect; relationality; ambivalence
Contributing Editor
Alia Shaddad
American University in Cairo | [email protected]
Research Interests: Intersections of anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics; space; time; subjectivity; relationships; alternativeness; affect; potentialities; technology and artificial intelligence; Middle East; North Africa
Contributing Editor
Yanping Ni
Princeton University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Materialism; environmental anthropology; political anthropology; energy; global capitalism; smart technologies; creative pedagogies; China
Visual and New Media Review
Section Editor
Jill J. Tan
Yale University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Death and dying; funeral corporations; urbanism; poetics; colonialisms; performance; games; Singapore; Southeast Asia
Section Editor
Ara Ortiz
Brandeis University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Infrastructures of mobility; urban citizenships; alternative economies; digital surveillance; visual and multimodal anthropology
Section Editor
Alejandro Jaramillo
New York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Visual and media anthropology; political economy; contemporary art; branding; national identity and memory; ethnographic film; cultural and media production; consumption; Latin America; Colombia
Contributing Editor
Meredith Evans
York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Affect; aesthetics; medical anthropology; sensory anthropology; sound studies; ethnomusicology; feminist technoscience; decoloniality; feminist and queer theory
Contributing Editor
Juliana Friend
University of California, Berkeley | [email protected]
Research Interests: Porn studies; circulation and publicity; queer theory; multimodal anthropology; Senegal; Côte d'Ivoire; participatory and collaborative research methods; archival practice
Contributing Editor
Farah Hallaba
University of Kent | [email protected]
Research Interests: Egyptian middle class; morality; migration; visual anthropology; auto-ethnography; sensory ethnography; collaborative and public anthropology; documentary filmmaking; digital interactive cocs; death; decolonizing education
Contributing Editor
Irmelin Joelsson
University of Oxford | [email protected]
Research Interests: Urbanism; economic anthropology; risks and insurance; material cultures and infrastructure; Tanzania; curating and visual cultures
Contributing Editor
Robyn Taylor-Neu
University of California, Berkeley | [email protected]
Research Interests: Mediation; aesthetics; semiotics; voice; landscape
Contributing Editor
Seon Shim
New York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: neurodivergence; caregiving; media anthropology; Korea; art production
Contributing Editor
Bethany Anderson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | [email protected]
Research Interests: History of anthropology; history of science; cybernetics; science and technology studies; data and recordkeeping histories; scientific archives
Contributing Editor
Wesley Brunson
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Intimacy; ethnographic writing; knowledge production; ethics; queer and housing activism; ethnographic poetry; creative non-fiction; Barcelona
Contributing Editor
Lily-Cannelle Mathieu
McGill University | [email protected]
Research interests: Computer vision; artificial intelligence; more-than-human thought; imagistic thinking; scientific epistemic practices; octopian intelligence; visual anthropology