Members

Dr. Paul Stoller - West Chester University

​Paul Stoller has been conducting anthropological research for more than 30 years. His early work concerned the religion of the Songhay people who live in the Republics of Niger and Mali in West Africa. Since 1992, Stoller has pursued studies of West African immigrants in New York City. Those studies have concerned such topics as the cultural dynamics of informal market economies and the politics of immigration.  This extensive record of research has led Stoller read and think deeply about the anthropology of religion, visual anthropology, the anthropology of senses and economic anthropology. Stoller's work has resulted in the publication of 15 books, including ethnographies, biographies, memoirs as well as three novels. He has been an NEH Fellow as well as a Residential Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  He has also been a two-time NSF Grantee, three-time Wenner-Gren Foundation Grantee, and a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow. In 1994 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. In 2002, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) named him the recipient of the Robert B Textor Award for Excellence in Anthropology. In 2013 Carl XI Gustav, King of Sweden, awarded him the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in recognition of his scientific contribution to anthropology.  In 2015 the AAA awarded him the Anthropology in Media Award (AIME) in recognition of his longstanding Huffington Post blog that brings to the general public an anthropological perspective on politics, higher education, culture and media.  He now writes a regular blog on the anthropology of wellbeing for Psychology Today. His most recent book is Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media (2018).

Professor Andrew Irving - University of Manchester

Andrew Irving is Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His regional specialisations are Kampala, Uganda and New York, USA. Andrew does research on experiences of illness, death and dying (especially from HIV/AIDS), in relation to the aesthetic appreciation of time, existence, and otherness; He is also interested in phenomenology, art, performance and creativity, time, comparisons of personhood, religious change, gender and urban experiences. Recent production include “The man who almost killed himself”, produced by BBC Arts, Odeon Cinemas in collaboration with Josh Azouz, Don Boyd and HiBrow Media. Most recent book: The Art of Life and Death – Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice.

Dr. Barbara Glowczewski - James Cook University

Barbara Glowczewski (Dr and Pr) is a Distinguished Professorial Researcher (DRCE) at the National Scientific Research center (CNRS), member of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology  (CNRS/EHESS/Collège de France/PSL : http://las.ehess.fr/index.php?1716). Silver medal of the CNRS 2018. She is an anthropologist specializing in Australian Indigenous issues, strategies of recognition and networks shared with other Indigenous peoples and populations displaced by colonisation and their alliances for social and environmental justice against ecocide. 
Author of 18 books (Indigenising anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze, EUP, nov. 2019; Desert Dreamers, University of Minnesota Press/Univocal, 2016;Totemic Becomings.Cosmopolitics of the Dreaming, Sao Paulo, n-1, 2015) and numerous multimedia productions in collaboration with Central Australian artists (Lajamanu - 40 years with Warlpiri people, 60' experimental documentary, 2018: https://vimeo.com/289440509 ; audiovisual archive on www.odsas.net; Dream Trackers CD-CROM, UNESCO, 2001) and Djugun/Yawuru/Jabirr Jabirr film maker Wayne Barker and Yolngu people from Bawaka (The spirit of Anchor, 53', 2002). 
She also worked  in Queensland (2004-2014) on the committal hearing of people arrested for the « riot » that followed a violent death in custody on Palm Island and wrote with the 'ring-leader' Lex Wotton Warriors for peace. She also worked in Brazil (2013-2015), filming an Umbanda tenda spirita in Florianopolis.

​Dr. Jenny Holt - Manchester Metropolitan University

Jenny Holt has a background in both visual art practice and television documentary production. Her work has been screened at numerous film festivals around the world, and she has produced, directed and filmed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, and the Discovery Channel. Her recent work, such as Crossing (2017) and Archipelago (2016), centres on Northern English landscapes experienced through film practice. She is a Senior Lecturer in filmmaking at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr. Laurent Van Lancker - Belgian National Film School

​Laurent Van Lancker is a filmmaker and anthropologist. His work ranges from experimental travel diaries to film and academic work that focuses on the sensorial and imaginary possibilities of documentary. One of the founders of Polymorfilms and VOX (media activist collective), his award-winning work, such as Surya (2007), has been widely screened and shown on television and at world-leading art centres. He is a Lecturer at INSAS (Belgian National Film School), SIC (Sound Image Culture), and at the MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie University Berlin. He also runs AV workshops and curates film programmes for Cinama Nova in Brussels. 

Ken Fero - Regent’s University London

Renowned filmmaker and political activist, Ken Fero has been active for over 30 years, producing many award-winning films for Channel 4, BBC, FR3 and Press TV. He is the founding member of Migrant Media – a media collective that has been supported by institutes such as UNESCO, British Film Institute and the Arts Council. His films range from politically controversial productions and cinematic documentaries, such as Injustice (2001), to poetic essay films such as Po Po (2013) and Burn (2014). He is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Production at Coventry University, Lecturer in Direction at Regent’s University, London, Visiting Lecturer at Brunel University, and Visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths’s College.

Dr. Erik Knudsen - University of Salford 

Erik Knudsen is a filmmaker and Professor of Media Practice at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK, and a Visiting Professor, and the former Head of the Editing Department, at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. As a filmmaker, he directed multiple fiction and documentary films; most recent productions include Cleft Lip (84 min., fiction), The Raven On The Jetty (88 min., fiction, 2015) and The Silent Accomplice (84 min., fiction, 2011). Erik runs his own film production company, One Day Films Ltd. More recently, Erik has been engaged with photography, publishing a photographic essay Cuba in Waiting, which was exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Manchester (2013) and Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (2014). His latest work, entitled Doubt, is a photographic and poetic book, combined with a film.

Dr. Rose Satiko Hikiji - University of São Paulo

Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji is a professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (USP) since 2005. Vice-coordinator of LISA (Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology at USP). She is also the coordinator of PAM (group of research in musical anthropology) and vice-coordinator of GRAVI (Group of Visual Anthropology). Author of the books Imagem-violência - Etnografia de um cinema provocador (2013) and A música e o risco (2006), co-author of Lá do Leste (2013), and co-editor of  A experiência da imagem na etnografia (2016), Bixiga em Artes e Ofícios ( 2014), Antropologia e Performance (2013), Escrituras da Imagem (2004) e Imagem-Conhecimento (2009). She has made various ethnographic films, including Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going to? (2018, with Jasper Chalcraft), Tabuluja (2017, with J. Chacraft and Shambuyi Wetu), Violão-Canção: Brazilian Soul (2016, with Chico Saraiva), The Eagle (2015, with Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier), Fabrik Funk (2015, with Boudreault-Fournier and Sylvia Caiuby Novaes), Art and the Street (2011, with Carolina Caffé). Currently she conducts the research project Being/Becoming African in Brazil with Jasper Chalcraft.

Dr. Itsushi Kawase - National Museum of Ethnology, Japan 

Itsushi Kwase is a filmmaker and anthropologist born in Gifu, Japan. In 2001, he initiated the long-term anthropological research on hereditary singers known as Azmari and Lalibala in northern Ethiopia. He has produced several documentary films, including ‘When Spirits Ride Their Horses’(2012), the award-winning 'Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel' (2007) and published articles on the social roles and performances of these singers in transition. He has also investigated the prospects and challenges of imparting anthropological knowledge by actively communicating on-screen, and occasionally, debating with people through his films.
​He is Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology/Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan. He has taught as a visitor at the University of Hamburg, University of Bremen, SoundImageCulture(SIC) in Belgium, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia,
Northwest University for Nationalities in China, etc.

Dr. Lorenzo Ferrarini - University of Manchester

Lorenzo Ferrarini is a Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. His research revolves around ecology, embodiment, and perception among donso hunters in Burkina Faso. His practice as a filmmaker, photographer, and sound recordist experiments with sensory ethnography and the borders between fiction and nonfiction. Recent documentaries include Kalanda—The Knowledge of the Bush (2014) and Living the Weather (2016). Much of his work is available at https://lorenzoferrarini.com

Professor Sarah Pink - Monash University

Sarah is Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab. Her research focuses on emerging intelligent technologies, automation, data, digital futures, safety and design for wellbeing. Current projects investigate autonomous driving vehicles, Mobility as a Service, digital energy futures, self tracking and wearable technologies, smart phone and personal technology futures, digital technology use in everyday life, and health care design. Sarah is a world leading Design Anthropologist, known for her development of innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She has over 20 years experiences of working with academic and industry research partners internationally and frequently gives keynote and public lectures in academic and business environments internationally. She has published numerous academic books, peer referred journal articles and book chapters. ​

Professor David MacDougall - Australian National University

David MacDougall is an ethnographic filmmaker and writer on cinema. He has filmed in East Africa, Australia, Sardinia, and India.  With his wife, Judith, he produced the ‘Turkana Conversations’ trilogy in 1973-4, Photo Wallahs (1991) on Indian photography, and Awareness (2010). Other films include To Live with Herds (1972), Tempus de Baristas (1993), SchoolScapes (2007), Gandhi’s Children (2008), and Under the Palace Wall (2014).  In 1997-2000 he conducted a study of the Doon School in northern India, followed by films about the Rishi Valley School in South India, and the Prayas shelter for homeless children in Delhi. He is the author of Transcultural Cinema (Princeton, 1998) and The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography and the Senses (Princeton, 2006). His latest book, The Looking Machine (2019), is published by Manchester University Press. He is Honorary Professor at the Research School of Humanities & the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra. His most recent project, ‘Childhood and Modernity’, encouraged Indian children to conduct visual research in their own communities.    ​

Stephanie Takaragawa -  Chapman University

Associate Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University, where she teaches classes on film, anthropology and ethnic studies. Her research interests focus on issues of race and representation in film, mass media, art, performance, and cultural display. She is a founding member of the award-winning curatorial collective Ethnographic Terminalia (http://ethnographicterminalia.org/). Her recent research examines the role of media, popular culture and cultural display in the construction and dissemination of a Japanese-American identity. She has served on the board of the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)  beginning in 2004, and was its president from 2015-2017, (http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/). The
She received her PhD from Temple University and has taught as a visitor at Rutgers University, the University of Hamburg, the University of Redlands and Temple University.

José C. Lisón Arcal - Complutense University of Madrid

Full professor in the Department of Social Anthropology of the Faculty of CC. Politics and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Held various positions of academic management as Vice-Dean of International Relations and Innovation in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UCM, Representative of the UCM in the UNICA Network (Universities of European Capitals) and Director of the EMUI. Expert Evaluator of the ANEP in the area of Social Sciences and FQS (Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Sozialforschung) on topics related to qualitative research techniques with audiovisual media and new technologies.
Various publications related to studies of cultural identity, Culture and Identity in the Province of Huesca (1986); Urban Anthropology, The Cultural Construction of the Urban Space in Huesca (1993); Anthropology of Tourism, Tourist Development and the Struggle for Local Resources Control (1989); Applied Anthropology and Visual Anthropology, Visual Anthropology: An Open Field (1992), Investigating with Photography in Social Anthropology (2005), Building Visual Anthropology in Spain (2012), Some rules for the construction of an anthropological audiovisual (2014), Culture school, mobile and digital photography (2016). Also participated in the production and direction of several anthropological audio-visuals.

Dr. Rupert Cox - University of Manchester

Rupert Cox (Director of Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester), has published on the Zen Arts, Cultures of Copying and Material Heritage in Japan, anthropology ‘Beyond Text’ and on the cultural and ecological politics of military aircraft noise. Interested in intersections between art and science and anthropology and innovative forms of public engagement.

Professor Trinh Minh-ha - UC Berkeley
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Dr. Metje Postma - Leiden University