Multimodal anthropologist, filmmaker, poet

Social documentary practice, ethnographic poetry, co-creative storytelling

Entre Rios: Surveillance and Futurity in the Sky Islands

Research

The Americas

Writing

Are We Listening Yet? Participatory Knowledge Production through Media Practice

Publications

University

Teaching

The Woman You Look For

Films

Latest News

2 Oct ’24

“Speculative Encounters: Animating Ambiguous Loss,” Critical Auto-ethnography Panel, 28 September 2024

Public narratives about adoption are rarely rooted in the experiences of those who live it. Adoption narratives prioritize the families that are made through adoption–with scarce accountability toward the families that are separated (Sisson, 2024). As an adoptee, my own family was separated (and established) through adoption. The Woman You Look For, my animated documentary…

6 Sep ’24

10 Years of Media Anthropology at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 27-29 September, 2024

Multimodal Engagements: 10 Years of Media Ethnography celebrates a decade of interdisciplinary research, coursework, film- and art-based exploration at the intersection of audiovisual media and anthropology.

23 Jul ’24

Theorising Futurity from the Fringes, EASA, 23 July, 2024

Our panel, Theorising Futurity from the Fringes, was invited to the European Association of Social Anthropology meetings this summer in Barcelona. Together with panel convenors, Darcy Alexandra (University of Bern), Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar (University of Cambridge) and Carolina Domínguez Guzmán (IHE Delft), we asked: How do we theorise the future from the vantage point of…