https://www.humanstories.ca/blog daily 1.0 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/180701d2-b80f-4444-88f7-252bb2aa38cf/alanna+youtube.jpg Blog - Make it stand out Alanna Cant | What is a Church for? | February 8th, 2022 https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/podcast-launch-unmasking-higher-education-indian-international-students-in-canada monthly 0.5 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/e0b254eb-025c-4ba3-af93-2262fb2b7310/UNMASKING+HIGHER+EDUCATION+%281000+x+500+px%29.png Blog - Podcast Launch: Unmasking Higher Education: Indian International Students in Canada - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/24ada82a-13d3-467c-9f17-c973ac7de2f0/Picture+of+students+%28Ben+Nelms+-+CBC%29.png Blog - Podcast Launch: Unmasking Higher Education: Indian International Students in Canada - Make it stand out Students on campus, after Ben Nelms / CBC. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/vivian-liu-circular-migrations-and-transforming-home monthly 0.5 2022-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/bfe6e8c7-9414-42d6-bfb6-a0ad3b493413/vivian.jpg Blog - Vivian Lu | Circular Migrations and Transforming Home Vivian Lu is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on capitalism and diasporic mobilizations amongst the Global South. Her first book focuses on the extensive commercial circulations of Nigerian businessmen amongst contemporary trade sites across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gergely-mohacsi-planting-the-seeds-of-resilience monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/5f018742-7558-4b63-81e1-794a04878ceb/mohacsig2.jpeg Blog - Gergely Mohacsi | Planting the Seeds of Resilience Gergely MOHÁCSI is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Sciences at Osaka University, Japan. He is a medical anthropologist with special interest in science and technology studies and comparative ethnography. His ethnographic fieldwork in Western Japan and Northern Vietnam looks at grassroots and participatory modes of environmental health, especially in the area of drug development. By highlighting the entanglement of different medical traditions in the process from growing plants to producing and metabolising new medications, his aim is to explore the methodological possibilities and challenges of ethnographic comparisons. He is currently leading the collaborative research project Comparative Approach to Multispecies Coexistence in the Anthropocene, funded by the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University (2020-2023). He is also part of the TransAsia STS network and editor of the open-access journal NatureCulture. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/kiven-strohm-politics-after-art-or-how-art-matters monthly 0.5 2022-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/9139ab1b-2d7a-453f-bbfb-8d25193bc5d3/Kiven.jpg Blog - Kiven Strohm | Politics after Art: Or, how Art Matters Kiven Strohm is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. His writing and research over the last decade has centred on relations of art and politics in Palestine/Israel. His research is focused on collaborative design experimentations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gabriel-dattatreyan-platform-placemaking monthly 0.5 2022-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/a81de2dd-a8f3-4a81-8329-9a1b6d37e49c/Dattatreyanauthorphotojpg.jpg Blog - Gabriel Dattatreyan | Platform Placemaking Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research engages with the ways in which digital media consumption, production, and circulation shape understandings of migration, gender, race, and urban space. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/alanna-cant-what-is-a-church-for monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/0e0289de-7f03-42e6-9431-562830898ea3/Alanna_Cant_Profile+Photo.jpg Blog - Alanna Cant | What is a Church for? Alanna Cant is a lecturer in social anthropology in the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading. Her research focuses on the politics and aesthetics of material practices in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, focusing on art markets, indigeneity, history, heritage, and religion. She completed her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012. Before joining Reading, she held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the University of Kent and a Research Fellowship at the University of Oslo. Her current research considers the transformations of material, political and religious relations as Roman Catholic spaces are brought into heritage regimes. Her monograph The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan woodcarvers in global economies of culture was published by the University of Texas Press in 2019. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/cherian-george-hate-propaganda monthly 0.5 2021-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/973bfbbd-9209-48f7-9bd9-ad2a1d0bd44f/Cherian+George+HK+04+sq.jpg Blog - Cherian George | Hate Propaganda Cherian George is professor of media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Communication and Film, where he also serves as associate dean for research. He researches media freedom, censorship and hate propaganda. His books include Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy (MIT Press, 2016). He received his Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University. Before joining academia, he was a journalist with The Straits Times in Singapore. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/keziah-wallace-reincarnation-connectedness-and-belonging monthly 0.5 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/5406ed92-88cc-4571-b301-a36dd39b616a/2019-05-18+Graduation+043.JPG Blog - Keziah Wallace | Reincarnation, Connectedness and Belonging Keziah Wallis (Kāi Tahu) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Fraser Valley. She is a social anthropologist whose previous work has focused on the ways that religion, culture, and gender intersect in the production of connectedness in contemporary Myanmar. Keziah’s work involves the integration of experiential, feminist, and Indigenous anthropological methodologies in the pursuit of a decolonised understanding of how communities establish a sense of self-identity and belonging. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gloria-c-prez-rivera-narcotrfico-trabajo-informal-y-seguridad-alimentaria monthly 0.5 2021-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1629567987205-PDZ4L47X1ITWANZ0NQIU/Perez-Rivera+photo.jpg Blog - Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera | Narcotráfico, Trabajo Informal y Seguridad Alimentaria Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera es candidata a doctorado en antropología en la Universidad de Vanderbilt y becaria postdoctoral SSHRC entrante en el Departamento de Antropología de la Universidad de Toronto Scarborough. Su investigación examina la financiarización como un conjunto de relaciones de deuda y crédito afectan el trabajo y le dan forma a las relaciones laborales de los grupos marginados socioeconómicamente. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/gloria-c-prez-rivera-narcotrafficking-informal-work-and-food-security monthly 0.5 2021-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1629124867300-C6LA22IQ8IXOG4CJRZ0S/Perez-Rivera+photo.jpg Blog - Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera | Narcotrafficking, Informal Work, and Food Security Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, and incoming SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research examines financialization as a set of debt and credit relations that shapes the work and labour relations of socio-economically marginalized groups. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/agnes-mondragn-celis-mediations-of-mexicos-drug-war monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1627998850920-5MN87Y9GCBR9TDAPTB9Z/IMG_1482+copy.jpg Blog - Agnes Mondragón-Celis | Mediations of Mexico's "Drug War" Agnes Mondragón-Celis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her doctoral research engages with the aesthetic, affective, and cultural formation of contemporary forms of warfare, such as the global War on Drugs, through mass media and its circulation. Her dissertation, Mediations of War: Formations of Statehood and Criminality in Mexico’s “War on Drug Trafficking,” explores the Mexican state’s fraught attempts to both subjugate the figure of drug trafficking and disentangle itself from the notion of criminality in the eyes of its publics. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/mingyuan-zhang-writing-a monthly 0.5 2021-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1627306063055-E4ITRS2E8NEB3M1J5YNJ/Mingyuan+ZHANG.jpg Blog - Mingyuan Zhang | Writing Against ‘Mask Culture’ Dr. Mingyuan Zhang is a sociocultural anthropologist by training. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health the University of Oslo. She received her PhD degree from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in November 2018. Her doctoral research focuses on how the meaning of “being Chinese” is culturally constructed in northern Madagascar, and the social implications of Chinese-led development projects in the same region. Prior to moving to Norway, she was a writing fellow at the Centre for Ethnography at the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Scarborough. She has also taught at the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She speaks and writes Mandarin Chinese and English fluently, and has a working knowledge of French and the dialect of Malagasy spoken in northern Madagascar. More info: https://uio.academia.edu/MingyuanZhang https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/erin-routon-family-detention-and-legal-care monthly 0.5 2021-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1626646656541-Y43DSTB9WPZ79EROINFM/head+shot+13.jpg Blog - Erin Routon | Family Detention and Legal Care Erin Routon received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2020. She also holds an MA in Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside and a BA in English from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her research focuses on migration, incarceration, activism, and care, and she currently works as a preceptor with Harvard University’s Writing Program. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/olga-ulturgasheva-sharing-your-world-through-dance-and-stories-alaska-siberia-knowledge-exchange monthly 0.5 2021-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1625776202674-2IKGP42L7GACNGISA9LE/Olga+Ulturgasheva+picture.JPG Blog - Olga Ulturgasheva | Sharing your World through Dance and Stories: Alaska-Siberia Knowledge Exchange Olga Ulturgasheva is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK. Over the last 15 years she has been engaged in a number of anthropological and cross-disciplinary studies exploring human and non-human personhood, animism, childhood and youth, climate change, resilience and adaptation patterns in Siberia, American Arctic and Amazonia. She is an author of Narrating the Future in Siberia: Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny (Berghahn 2012) and co-editor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia (Berghahn 2012). Her new book titled Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North (edited together with Barbara Bodenhorn) is forthcoming in spring 2022 (under contract with Berghahn Books). Currently, she serves as a Principal Investigator and co-Principal Investigator for two large international, collaborative research projects funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and European Research Council (ERC). The NSF-funded project is a comparative, collaborative study of adaptation strategies and resilient responses to the latest threats induced by climate change and environmental degradation in the Russian and American Arctic (2015-2021). The ERC-funded project examines how climate change is managed at the ethnic borderlands of China and Russia while mobilising expertise of anthropologists, historians and philosophers of science and ethics, indigenous experts and environmental scientists (2020-2026). https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/nedine-moonsamy-science-fiction-imaginaries-in-africa monthly 0.5 2021-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1625447016067-8XCYVRJSUQUML2J9K8JW/Nedine+Profile+2021.jpg Blog - Nedine Moonsamy | Science Fiction Imaginaries in Africa Nedine Moonsamy is a Senior Lecturer in the English department at the University of Pretoria. She is currently writing a monograph on contemporary South African Fiction and otherwise conducts research on science fiction in Africa. She is part of the Urban Cultures and Popular Imaginaries in Africa (UCAPI) project. Her debut novel, The Unfamous Five (Modjaji Books) was shortlisted for the HSS Fiction Award (2021), and her poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural New Contrast National Poetry Award (2021). https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/dada-docot-community-pantries-in-the-philippines-amid-covid-19 monthly 0.5 2021-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1624454340404-489LDYE6W9L2S27VDZJP/Copy+of+%E6%97%A0%E9%A2%98%E7%9B%AE%E5%BD%950719.JPG Blog - Dada Docot | Community Pantries in the Philippines Amid COVID-19 Dada Docot is a cultural and visual anthropologist and community worker whose works are centered on her hometown in the Philippines and the gendered and racialized trajectories of the Filipino diaspora. During her research fellowship at the Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo that will commence in August 2021, Dada will work on her first book project about how historical and contemporary migration have transformed everyday life in the Philippines. She is also starting to build her “non-lab” called Anthropology of the Hometown and Abroad in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, where she works as Assistant Professor. In addition, she is the principal investigator of the project titled “Overseas Filipino Workers amid COVID-19. For more information about her work, please visit https://dadadocot.com. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/arsalan-khan-islamic-piety-and-moral-order-in-pakistan monthly 0.5 2021-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1623697830971-U5XPZKH4AHQWYFLGJ9V1/image001.jpg Blog - Arsalan Khan | Islamic Piety and Moral Order in Pakistan Arsalan Khan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and is an assistant professor of anthropology at Union College. His research focuses on the relationship between ritual, gender, ethics, and sociality, themes that he explores in the context of the Islamic revival in Pakistan. His first book project The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan examines the zealous commitment to a distinct form of face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat. The Promise of Piety examines how Tablighis place a moral commitment to hierarchy at the heart of religion, how this becomes the basis for restructuring domestic and public life, and how moral hierarchy comes to be imbued with the promise of transcending a range of political crises that afflict life in postcolonial Pakistan. His work speaks to the broader relationship between Islam, secularism and modernity. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/jon-bialecki-mormon-transhumanism monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1623072383690-LA2Y85PS76FFZIWJDSOQ/IMG_1104.jpeg Blog - Jon Bialecki | Mormon Transhumanism Jon Bialecki (JD 1997, Ph.D. 2009) is a continuing lecturer in the UCSD department of anthropology; he has previously taught at Reed College and the University of Edinburgh. His first monograph, A Diagram for Fire: Miracles and Variation in an American Charismatic Movement (UC Press), is a study of the miraculous and differentiation in American religion, with a focus on ethics, politics, language, and economic practices; it was awarded the 2017 Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society and Honorable Mention in the 2018 Clifford Geertz Prize by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. A second book, Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, Speculative Thought, and Worlds Without End, addresses the Mormon Transhumanist Association; it will be published in late 2021 by Fordham University Press. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/columba-gonzalez-duarte-ms-que-mariposas-una-mirada-a-la-reserva-de-la-biosfera-de-la-mariposa-monarca-en-mxico monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1622472446272-UJBWZWQI2O8PQ320OJIP/Image.jpeg Blog - Columba González-Duarte | Más que Mariposas: Una Mirada a la Reserva de la Biosfera de la Mariposa Monarca en México Columba tiene un doctorado en antropologia social de la Universidad de Toronto con un titulación conjunta en la Escuela de Medioambiente. Después de graduarse en 2019, la Dra. González-Duarte ganó una beca postdoctoral en el Departamento de Geografía y Planificación de la Universidad de Toronto, y del Insituto Max Plank para el Estudio de la Diversidad Religiosa y Étnica. Recientemente empezó un posición como profesora asistente en el departamento de Sociología y Antropología en la Universidad Mount Saint Vincent, en Nueva Escocia. Sus intereses de investigación están relacionados con la dinámica de conservación trinacional de la mariposa monarca, explorando las conexiones entre la industria agroalimentaria del TLCAN, la migración laboral, y la disminución de la mariposa monarca. También ha trabajado con las comunidades científicas y indígenas que conviven con esta mariposa a través de Canadá, Estados Unidos y México. Actualmente Columba esta trabajando en su proyecto de investigación, “Migraciones Convergentes”, y esta terminando un libro basado en su investigación doctoral. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/columba-gonzalez-duarte-more-than-butterflies-a-look-at-the-monarch-butterfly-biosphere-in-mexico monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1621862560177-BM6RTYMB6U359AVLP3YY/Image.jpeg Blog - Columba González-Duarte | More than Butterflies: A Look at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere in Mexico Columba holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Toronto with a joint degree at the School of Environment. After graduation in 2019, Dr. Gonzalez-Duarte gained a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Geography and Planning of the University of Toronto and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She recently started a position as an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University, in Halifax Nova Scotia. Her research interests are related to monarch butterfly tri-national conservation dynamics exploring the connections between NAFTA’s agri-food industry, labour migration, and monarchs decline. She has also worked with scientific and Indigenous communities that co-habitate with this butterfly across Canada, the United States and Mexico. Columba is currently working on her research project, “Convergent Migrations,” and finishing a book based on her doctoral research. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-on-may-17-francesca-damico-cuthbert-toronto-hip-hop-amp-the-music-marketplace monthly 0.5 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1621100004098-M2JA7XULSGGGX6MSD84A/ebc296e0-a3d4-49ed-8aee-a52046bb3d7a.jpeg Blog - Francesca D’Amico-Cuthbert | Toronto Hip-Hop & the Music Marketplace Dr. Francesca D'Amico-Cuthbert is the 2020-2021 Community-Engaged Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. A trained historian, Dr. D’Amico-Cuthbert’s research explores the history of American and Canadian Black popular music, the creative industries and the music marketplace with expertise in Rap music and Hip-Hop culture. Her PhD work traced how Black rappers in the era of mass incarceration constructed complex ethnographies of urban spaces, transformed dispositions of power, and unmasked the modes and mechanisms of a persistent and haunting coloniality in the afterlives of American slavery. Her current postdoctoral research explores Toronto Rap music’s relationship to commerce, anti-Black market segmentation and the availability of state revenue streams and marketplace exposure – and in doing so, highlight a social history of power relations between Toronto Hip Hop practitioners, creative marketplace elites, and state-actors. Currently, Dr. D’Amico-Cuthbert also serves on the Education Committee of the Universal Museum of Hip Hop – which is dedicated to the preservation of Hip Hop’s history and is set to open in 2024 in the Bronx, New York City. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-on-may-10-darren-byler-terror-capitalism-in-northwest-china monthly 0.5 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1620004363351-9HOVCT5KVD0NAJPG6Q8N/Byler+Headshot+2021.v2.crop.small.png Blog - Darren Byler | Terror Capitalism in Northwest China Anthropologist Darren Byler is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia and a post-doctoral research fellow in the China Made Project at the Center for Asian Studies, CU Boulder. His teaching and research examines the dispossession of stateless populations through forms of contemporary capitalism and colonialism in China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of a forthcoming ethnography titled Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke University Press 2021) and a narrative-driven book titled In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Columbia Global Reports 2021). https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-on-may-3-wunpini-fatimata-mohammed-transnational-feminist-organizing monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1619888634727-TMHN12AO7MVXM0TRQUGH/M_Headshot.jpg Blog - Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed | Transnational Feminist Organizing Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed is an assistant professor of global media in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is co-editor of the book “African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora” (forthcoming 2021). She currently serves on the editorial board of the Communication Culture and Critique journal and serves as a board director at the West African Research Association. Her research which focuses on feminisms, decolonization and broadcast media have appeared in the Howard Journal of Communications and other reputable journals. She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana for several years and some of her work has been published on Al Jazeera, Africa is a country, Global Voices and Okay Africa. She has appeared on several Ghanaian media platforms including the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/nicholas-mizer-reimagining-the-world-through-play monthly 0.5 2021-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1617629228394-VJVW3SSZWWN023AF3JZI/mizern%40rpi.edu_NichoalsMizer_SocialMedia.jpg Blog - Nicholas Mizer | (Re)imagining the World through Play Nicholas Mizer’s research sits at the intersection of anthropology, interactive design, phenomenology, and gonzo ethnography. From this position, he investigates questions of how collaborative imagination shapes the human experience of worlds, especially how imagining other worlds together can serve as a way to re-enchant and re-make our own world. He is the author of Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds (Palgrave, 2019), chair of Game Studies for the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and editor at TheGeekAnthropologist.com, and a lecturer in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-on-april-19-nii-kotei-nikoi-hiplife-music-videos-and-social-media monthly 0.5 2021-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1618526316898-PDX0M18FSKFT1IFVIUMD/niikotei-profile.jpg Blog - Nii Kotei Nikoi | Hiplife Music Videos and Social Media Nii Kotei Nikoi is Assistant Professor, Global Media and Digital Studies, at The College of Wooster. Nii Kotei studies African popular culture. He is interested in how meaning-making practices inherently relate to broader questions of power among axes of social difference and hierarchy (race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality and language). His research is theoretically informed by critical cultural studies, cultural production, political economy of communication, and decoloniality. He employs qualitative and visual methodologies to examine these concerns. His creative practice draws on my background in graphic design and documentary photography. Currently, his research examines development discourse in Ghanaian popular culture. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-on-april-12-heather-mellquist-lehto-korean-multisite-churches monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1617630378059-S7PB1P68YAA60G4794DS/Mellquist+Lehto_Headshot+1.jpg Blog - Heather Mellquist Lehto | Korean Multisite Churches Heather Mellquist Lehto is a cultural anthropologist whose work attends to the intersections of technology, religion, and kinship in South Korea and the United States. She is a postdoctoral research fellow on an interdisciplinary research project Beyond Secularization: Religion, Science, and Technology in Public Life at Arizona State University. Her first major research project and book manuscript, Holy Infrastructure, draw on over two years of ethnographic research to demonstrate the co-construction of Christianity and technology in transnational Korean multisite churches. Her current research project, Skinship: Communion and Contagion in South Korea, examines the sociocultural significance of skin. Through ethnographic research in various social settings, this research traces how conceptions of skin, race, and gender are informed by medical practices, public health projects, religious traditions, and the booming Korean cosmetics industry. Mellquist Lehto's research has received funding from the Fulbright-Hays fellowship, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Korea Foundation, the Academy for Korean Studies, and the Templeton Religion Trust. Her written work has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Korean Studies, Religion and Society, American Religion, and Acta Koreana, and her audio ethnographic research has been featured on the international public radio program PRI's The World. https://www.humanstories.ca/blog/coming-up-april-5-letha-victor-haunting-beyond-trauma-in-acholi-uganda monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/1617024185755-5DIS8EQ4W5L3PDG11F43/IMG_6969.jpg Blog - Letha Victor | Haunting: Beyond Trauma in Acholi, Uganda Letha Victor is an anthropologist, writer, and assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Since 2008 she has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on postcolonial violence, haunting, human-spirit relations, and ethics in the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda. Letha is interested in a broad range of issues that includes witchcraft and conspiracy, debates about authenticity, ritual expertise, and decolonisation, social suffering and more. She is currently working on an ethnographic book manuscript provisionally titled The World Outside, The World Inside: Haunting Beyond Trauma in Acholi, Uganda. 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He is a product of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology where he earned a BFA and MFA in painting and sculpture. His practice is situated in the field of painting, illustration and street art. He was the recipient of the Kuenyehia prize for Ghanaian Contemporary Art for 2016, an honour conferred on him by a jury led by professor emeritus El Anatsui. Bright’s work had been gaining critical acclaim on social media, a strategy he employed to question the limiting spaces available for displaying his art and engaging a young art audience in his hometown of Ghana. Bright Ackwerh’s practice has been heavily influenced by Ghanaian artist duo FOKN BOIS and the work of Nigerian activist and musician Fela Kuti in how they have made social commentary and has recently been centered on investigating pop culture as a medium which he also explores as public poster making. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in Ghana and abroad including ‘Cornfields in Accra’ in 2016, ‘Orderly Disorderly’ in 2017 and his first solo ‘Where De Cho Dey’ in 2018. He has also been involved in organizing art workshops in the northern region of Ghana, collaboration with some development agencies based in Tamale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/87ed836f-b27a-4ee2-9664-034db19c61dc/AnnickKamgang.jpg Panel Discussions - Annick Kamgang I am Annick Kamgang, or KAM. I would define myself as an artivist (artist and activist). I express myself with political cartoons, graphic novels and illustrations. I was born and raised between Central Africa and the French West Indies : during the eighties in Cameroon and CAR (Central African Republic), the country of Bokassa, an African despot. And during the nineties I was raised in Maryse Condé and Aimé Césaire's lands. In 1991, a revolution occurred in many French-speaking African countries, people fought for more freedom. My father took part in it, he became an activist after losing his job, because he wrote an article which was supporting this revolution in Jeune Afrique, a famous Pan-African newspaper. The article was illustrated by a cartoon of Plantu, a famous french political cartoonist. Then my father decided to create UPA (Union of the People of Africa), a panafricanist political party, and he spent the rest of his life defending panafricanism in Cameroon. My first graphic novel "Lucha" done with Justine Brabant, was released on April 2018 at La Boîte à bulles Editions, in collaboration with Amnesty International. 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Her research and teaching focus on decolonization, the global Cold War, urbanism, and political modernity in the Asia Pacific. She is the author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Fordham UP, 2021), and The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (Minnesota UP, 2011). She has also co-edited, with Gary Wilder, the collected volume, The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham UP, 2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/47b9db56-da9d-4442-af65-cc044b56c69a/Anima+Adjepong.jpg Panel Discussions - Anima Adjepong Anima Adjepong (@animaadjepong) is on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. They research, write, and teach about identity, culture, and social change and are particularly interested in how cultural struggles can bring about social transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fcee3bf1d0df60ade6012a6/b3d65410-afba-46c8-a05c-86fd46115cd4/headshot+2022.jpg Panel Discussions - Melody Devries Melody Devries (@melodeV) is a PhD candidate in the Communication and Culture Department at Ryerson University. Building from a Masters degree in anthropology, Devries uses digital ethnographic methods to examine how far-right and conspiratorial politics become compelling through everyday practices, with a specific focus on how the Christian Right helps mainstream far-right politics. 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