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.
Student Representative, 2019–2021
Paul Christians
Stanford University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Heritage; expertise and experts; distributive politics; after cosmopolitanism; labor; migration; Qatar; Gulf; Jordan; Middle East
AnthroPod
Section Editor
Benjamin Bean
University of California, Davis | [email protected]
Research Interests: Sense(s); taste and tasting; craft brewing and craft drinking; sound and musicking; coloniality and decolonial practices; religion and secularism; Puerto Rico
Section Editor
Beth Derderian
Northwestern University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Cultural production; anthropology of art; bureaucracy; labor; NGOs and organizational anthropology; rule of experts; citizenship; nationalism; transnationalism; the Middle East; Arab Gulf; United Arab Emirates
Section Editor
Josh Rivers
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | [email protected]
Research Interests: Digital games; institutions; queer theory; governance; virtual worlds
Contributing Editor
Céline Eschenbrenner
Tulane University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Cross-border mobility; space; alterity; dissent; science and technology studies; France; Italy
Contributing Editor
Henriette Fischer
University College London | [email protected]
Research Interests: Migration; community; social and health care; education; visual and auditory ethnography
Contributing Editor
Joyce Rivera-González
University of Notre Dame | [email protected]
Research Interests: Youth; disaster; precarity; crisis; geographies of capitalism; colonialism; Caribbean and Latin America; Puerto Rico
Contributing Editor
Michelle Hak Hepburn
University of British Columbia | [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental imaginaries; anthropology beyond the human; Americas; feminisms; deforestation; restoration; coloniality
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
Nick Smith
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Urban mobility; public space; humanitarian sociality; futurity; precariousness
Contributing Editor
Siv Greyson Tshefu
University of Cape Town | [email protected]
Research Interests: Utopias; anarchy; art-activism; collective power; relationality; affect; pedagogy; futurism; alternative methodologies; culture-jamming
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
Member Voices
Section Editor
Scott Schnur
Emory University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental anthropology; temporality; science and technology studies; Greenland and the Arctic
Contributing Editor
Danny Cardoza
University of Cambridge | [email protected]
Research Interests: Jehovah’s Witnesses; anthropology of religion; anthropology of Christianity; theology; technology; pedagogy; language; morality and ethics; space and time; Central Asia; Russia
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
Contributing 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
Contributing Editor
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.
Contributing Editor
Janita Van Dyk
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Temporality; neoliberalism; ecology; alternative agriculture; politics of (bio)diversity; food; Italy
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
Ola Galal
Graduate Center, City University of New York | [email protected]
Research Interests: Legal anthropology; anthropology of religion
Contributing Editor
Kristin Gupta
Rice University | [email protected]
Research Interests: New burial technologies; death and dying; affect; care; toxicity; extinction; Anthropocene studies; queer anthropology; multispecies ethnography; United States
Contributing Editor
Jerika Loren Heinze
Radboud University, Founder of The Fieldwork Initiative | [email protected]
Research Interests: Balkan ethnography; Hellenic studies; debt and inequality; crisis; youth; issues of race, class, and gender in fieldwork
Contributing Editor
Jessica Madison Pískatá
UC Santa Cruz | [email protected]
Research Interests: Climate change; material extraction; energy; human/geological relations; ecopoetics; translation; experimental ethnography; Cold War
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
Contributing Editor
Lachlan Summers
University of California, Santa Cruz | [email protected]
Research Interests: Political ecology; prefigurative politics; insurance; chance; trauma; imagination and play; México
Teaching Tools
Section Editor
Erin Gould
University of California, Riverside | [email protected]
Research Interests: Youth; storytelling; performance; festivals; language; space; transformation; revival; Morocco; Middle East; pedagogy and innovations in teaching
Section Editor
Sydney Pullen
University of Arizona | [email protected]
Research Interests: education; racial capitalism; the U.S. South
Contributing Editor
Mai Alkhamissi
Princeton University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Exile; Middle East; political geography; diaspora
Contributing Editor
Joshua Liashenko
University of California, Riverside | [email protected]
Research Interests: Queer anthropology; medical anthropology; transgender studies; activism; healthcare; biopolitics; social reproduction; community engaged research; Southern California
Contributing Editor
Dana McLachlin
University of Amsterdam | [email protected]
Research Interests: Humanitarianism; postcolonialism; gender, race, and class; Bangladesh; economic anthropology
Contributing Editor
Sarah O’Sullivan
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; northern Uganda; Acholi; East Africa; morality and ethics; stigma; humanitarianism; value of life; development; representation; colonialism; global health; productivity; ethnographic pedagogy
Contributing Editor
Sarah Paust
McMaster University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Critical global health; philanthropy studies; humanitarianism; biopolitics; crowdfunding; reciprocity; empathy; health activism; surveillance; digital sociality
Contributing Editor
Alexandria Petit-Thorne
York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Performance; homonationalism; digital ethnography; creative methodologies; teaching; pedagogy; research creation
Contributing Editor
Dalton Price
University of Oxford | [email protected]
Research Interests: Liberalism; humanitarianism; NGOs; international development; United Nations; political economy; geopolitics; disciplinary regimes; international relations; diplomacy; Venezuela; Latin America
Contributing Editor
Isabel M. Salovaara
Stanford University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of capitalism; personhood; youth and adolescence; parallel education systems; moral anthropology; South Asia
Contributing Editor
Anika Jugović Spajić
University of Pittsburgh | [email protected]
Research Interests: Health and care; biopolitics; the state; postsocialism; neoliberalism; civil society; volunteerism; citizenship; responsibility; health activism; Serbia
Contributing Editor
Prerna Srigyan
University of California, Irvine | [email protected]
Research Interests: Science pedagogy; radical pedagogy; science and technology studies; environmental justice
Visual and New Media Review
Section Editor
Megan Jeanne Gette
University of Texas at Austin | [email protected]
Research Interests: Sensory ethnography; experimental methods; multimodalisms; affect; somatics; labor; space; energy; infrastructure; rurality; political ecology; chemo-ethnography
Section Editor
Andrés Romero
Wayne State University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Ethnographic writing; place and memory; violence; selfhood; images and imagination; 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
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
Irmelin Joelsson
University of Oxford | [email protected]ro.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Urbanism; economic anthropology; risks and insurance; material cultures and infrastructure; Tanzania; curating and visual cultures
Contributing Editor
Ara Ortiz
Brandeis University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Infrastructures of mobility; urban citizenships; alternative economies; digital surveillance; visual and multimodal anthropology
Contributing Editor
Jill J. Tan
Yale University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Death and dying; funeral corporations; urbanism; poetics; colonialisms; performance; games; Singapore; Southeast Asia
Contributing Editor
Robyn Taylor-Neu
University of California, Berkeley | [email protected]
Research Interests: Mediation; aesthetics; semiotics; voice; landscape