2024
Ph.D. Anthropology
Dissertation advisor: Ann Stoler
Education
2010
B.A. Anthropology
Thesis advisor: Dejan Lukic
Dissertation
- Title
- Ends of Solitude: techniques and technologies of being alone
- Abstract
- Solitude has been used to modify subjects, selves, spirits or souls in many ways and in many different cultural and historical contexts. More recently, intense experiences of solitude have been widely reported as producing perceptual disturbances, heightened sensitivity to stimuli, and emotional dysregulation in a variety of carceral, therapeutic, and religious settings. Though wilderness solitude is often associated with ideals of freedom, individualism, healing, and autonomy, its effects are not entirely separable from solitudes of confinement found in flotation chambers and control units. Rather, all experiences of solitude emerge from nested series of sensory, semiotic, symbolic, and spatial boundaries.
- Chair
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Ann Stoler
- Committee
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Nicolas Langlitz
Eugene Thacker
Teaching Experience
2026
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Prepared syllabus and assignments, graded papers and moderated asynchronous discussions for an online class on cultural anthropology, with a focus on Native North America.
2022
Introduction to Anthropology
Prepared syllabus, lectures, and assignments. Graded papers and moderated discussions on the history of anthropological theory and ethnographic practice.
2019
Individualisms
Prepared syllabus, lectures, and assignments. Graded papers and moderated discussions regarding aesthetic and moral demands for individualism in art, literature, fashion, body modification, and ideologies of adventure.
2019
Urban Worlds.
Moderated discussions, graded papers, conducted guest lectures.
2018
Wild Landscapes
Prepared syllabus, lectures, assignments. Graded papers and moderated discussions regarding myths, geographies, and social production of wilderness.
2017
Landscapes of the City
Moderated discussions, graded papers, conducted guest lectures.
2016
Being Alone
Prepared syllabus, lectures, assignments. Graded papers and moderated discussions regarding socio-historical context, psychosomatic effects, and ritual practices of solitude with a focus on contemporary and Native North America.
2016
Landscapes of the City
Moderated discussions, graded papers, conducted guest lectures.