Research
Visual anthropology and ethnographic film
Visual and material culture; the use of audio-visual media in research and fieldwork; experimental methodologies; intersections between the fields of anthropology and contemporary art; intersections between between anthropology and surrealism.
Everyday sites and practices of cultural memory
Unofficial and inadvertent memories; memory and forgetting; critical heritage studies; museums and archives; the relationship between remembrance work and audio-visual-sensory media/methods.
Romania and post-communism
Memory practices in the post-communist context; contemporary Romanian visual culture; post-communist transition; Eastern Europe.
Research grants
Little Familiar Objects: Decolonising Erland Nordenskiöld’s Colonial Rock Collection
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
August 2022 - August 2024