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
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
Cory-Alice André-Johnson
University of Virginia | [email protected]
Research Interests: Ontology; not-knowing; creative ethnographic writing; Vezo women; Madagascar
Contributing 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
Contributing Editor
Marios Falaris
Johns Hopkins University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Love; temporality; affect; possibility; violence; South Asia
Tristan Lee-Jones
Rutgers University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Extractive industry; settler colonialism; critical race and whiteness studies; state formation; violence; Canada; oil/tar sands; landscape; space; phenomenological and decolonial methodology
Contributing Editor
Siobhán McGuirk
Goldsmiths, University of London | [email protected]
Research Interests: Migration and mobility; immigration/asylum law; sexuality; gender; NGOs and nonprofits; state power; visual and sensorial anthropology; discourse analysis; public anthropology; United States; Europe
Contributing Editor
Arielle Janet Milkman
University of Colorado Boulder | [email protected]
Research Interests: Cultural memory; structural violence; urban risk, Latin America
Contributing Editor
Anar Parikh
Brown University | [email protected]
Research Interests: belonging; diaspora; migration; political participation and civic engagement; citizenship; South Asians; United States
Contributing Editor
Raphaëlle Rabanes
University of California, Berkeley/San Francisco | [email protected]
Research Interests: Community responses to health and structural inequalities; French Caribbean/Guadeloupe; (post)colonial presents; racial formations; disabled life as resistance; dance as resistance; memorial/historical activism; medical anthropology; Black studies
Contributing Editor
Tariq Rahman
University of California, Irvine | [email protected]
Research Interests: Land; finance; cities; bureaucracy; diaspora; postcoloniality; Pakistan
Contributing Editor
Aakash Solanki
University of Toronto | [email protected]
Research Interests: Knowledge; algorithms, data, software; media anthropology; bureaucracy and the state; development; India
Contributing Editor
Althea SullyCole
Columbia University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Aurality; ethnomusicology; West Africa
Contributing Editor
Shelmith Wanjiru
University of Nairobi | [email protected]
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; health and medicine; rituals and practices; religion; ethnography; anthropology in Kenya
Member Voices
Section 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
Section Editor
Scott Schnur
Emory University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental anthropology; temporality; science and technology studies; Greenland and the Arctic
Section Editor
Pablo H. Seward Delaporte
Stanford University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Anthropology of becoming; the politics of life, politics as life, and lived politics; social movements and activism; decolonial urbanism; urban citizenship; care and violence; migration and racism; neo/liberal governance; critical phenomenology; Latin America; Chile
Section 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
Contributing Editor
Sonia Grant
University of Chicago | [email protected]
Research Interests: Jurisdiction; oil and gas; environment; settler colonialism; law; atmosphere; New Mexico
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
Sydney Pullen
University of Arizona | [email protected]
Research Interests: education; racial capitalism; the U.S. South
Contributing Editor
Whitney Russell
University of California, San Diego | [email protected]
Research Interests: Precarity; gender; development; citizenship; political subjectivity; feminist pedagogy; South Asia
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
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
Ashley Elizabeth Drake
University of Chicago | [email protected]
Research Interests: Human–animal interaction; science and technology studies; multispecies ethnography; canines; companion animals; zoo studies; embodiment; anthropology of the military; subjectivity; affect; United States
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
Alexandra Vieux Frankel
American Anthropological Association | [email protected]
Research Interests: Affect; gender; nationalism; placemaking; anthropology of literature; feminist anthropology; visual anthropology; Turkey
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
Sander Holsgens
University College London | [email protected]
Research Interests: Film; architecture; poetics; aesthetics; phenomenology
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
Jen K. Hughes
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | [email protected]
Research Interests: Economy; capitalism; financialization; colonialism; settler colonialism; sovereignty; utopia; social mobilization and protest; race and whiteness; translatability; time; magic; subjectivity and multiple ontologies; visual anthropology and filmmaking; critical theory; feminist, queer, and trans ethnography; Iceland
Contributing Editor
Melissa Lefkowitz
New York University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Transnational imaginaries and crossings; media; development; expertise; volunteerism; urban architectures; ethnographic cinema; China; Kenya
Contributing Editor
Alexandra Middleton
Princeton University | [email protected]
Research Interests: Medical anthropology; social studies of science and technology; human‑machine interfaces; disability studies; experimentality; visual and sensorial anthropology; embodiment; Scandinavia; ethnographic film; documentary photography
Contributing Editor
Robyn Taylor-Neu
University of California, Berkeley | [email protected]
Research Interests: Mediation; aesthetics; semiotics; voice; landscape