About
I am an anthropologist, filmmaker, and curator who explores the politics and poetics of everyday life. The questions that occupy me include: How do people create a world for themselves after violent conflicts and environmental destruction? What stories do they tell? And how can I, as a social anthropologist, articulate aspects of human and other-than-human experiences through images and sounds? I have explored such questions through ethnographic fieldwork in Venezuela (2006), the UK (2009), Ecuador (2020–21), Peru (2010–2015 and 2016–2019, 2024–) and more recently in Europe (2023–).
One of my ambitions is to find and develop new ways of engaging with my research partners through experience-led approaches. I use observational, participatory, collaborative, and co-creative methods to produce (moving) images and sounds that enable me to explore the relationships that shape people’s experiences in and of contemporary societies. My research is situated in the fields of memory in post-conflict settings, socio-environmental activism, and emerging forms of engaged citizenship.
I have a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with Visual Media and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester; I completed a degree in Latin American Studies and a Mag.a in Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. After my PhD, I spent five wonderful years as a postdoc at the University of Bern. After a fellowship at NYU’s Centre for Media, Culture and History (cut short by the Covid pandemic), I landed at the University of Amsterdam where I am an assistant professor in Visual and Media Anthropology. I am also co-director of CameraWise – The Amsterdam Centre for Visual Anthropology and co-editor of the Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF).