Scholar. Educator. Filmmaker.
I am an anthropologist, curator, and filmmaker in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I am a Lecturer and the convenor for the MA in Visual Anthropology.
Combining ethnographic research and multimodal media production, I unpack how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through collective and individual engagements with the traces of political violence, displacement, and decolonization in Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian Atlantic. Crossing geographic boundaries, my projects address the legacies of colonialism and fascism on the Iberian Peninsula and among its former colonies. At present, I am developing a project about histories of extraction, forest ecologies, and plant memories via the history of eucalyptus and its proliferation in Spain and Portugal.
I am a member of the Writing with Light Editorial Collective and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Visual Anthropology Review. I also lead Working Group 1 for the TRACTS Network (CA20134).
Ethnographic & Visual Research.
How do individuals and collectivities mobilize images and other visual traces to produce knowledge about violent pasts? Read about recent work regarding the visuality of memory in Portugal, Spain, and other contact zones across the Iberian Atlantic.
Photography. Film. Visual Narrative.
What narratives are produced by thinking with and through images? Browse a selection of multimodal projects, photo-essays and documentary films, as well as information about works in progress.
Knowledge Production.
My most recent articles, essays, and visual essays published in academic journals, exhibition catalogues and reports.
Anthropology, in the Classroom & Beyond.
How can anthropological theories and methods equip students with critical thinking skills? What does an “ethnographic approach” bring to teaching students about the past? Check out my course descriptions and reflections on student-centered pedagogical strategies.
