Anthropologist,
in practice.
I’ve got a long name & a lot of little questions.
I’m a Professor of Anthropology at Seattle Central College, a cultural researcher and ethnographer who studies the logistics of vision, attention, & aspiration within cultural industries, a video + multimedia artist, and freelance creative director, writer, consultant, & facilitator for clients who are still betting on humanity.
I also make things, give talks, write, and run a silly little newsletter if you need more anthropological musings, microdoses of cultural critique and social theory, and charming conversation questions for cocktail hour in your inbox.
My research
I study the emergence of the contemporary subject as one who is a content creator: a person attuned to the algorithmic, aesthetic, and market intuitions that emerge each day within the attention economy.
My fieldwork’s protagonists are aspirant creators and creatives who navigate content industries’ unstable terrains in cultural and tech hubs—mostly in the US, but also through interlocutors in Japan, Mexico, Central Europe, and the UK.
Research interests
Visual Anthropology + Visual Cultures
Science & Technology Studies
Materiality of photography, cinematography + montage
Affect and aesthetics of AI, cognition, + experience
Algorithmic capitalism
Creative labor and agency
History of the senses and sensation
Theories of the unconscious mind + digital culture
Anarchy and kinship
Freelance
I work with clients & organizations who want culturally-responsive, research-informed, and editorial help telling stories that matter & move people—for real.
Take a look at my process, my portfolio and contact me to chat about your project, problem, or curiosities. I’m all ears!
Teaching
I’m a Professor of Anthropology (tenure-track) at Seattle Central College and teach anthropology, ethnographic methods, visual cultures, and linguistics.
Previously, I’ve designed and taught classes in the Departments of Anthropology, English, and was the 2023-2024 CLIP Teaching Fellow at Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington, Seattle.