EDITORIAL OFFICE
ALI
FESER
CO-EDITOR
Ali Feser is a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary artist. She was trained at Bard College and the University of Chicago and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Healthcare at Clarkson University. She is writing a book about the material history of Kodak film, its ecological aftereffects in Rochester, New York, and the erosion of utopian fantasies of the capitalist "good life."
LEE DOUGLAS
CO-EDITOR
Lee Douglas is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also convenes the MA in Visual Anthropology. Combining scholarly research with visual production and curatorial initiatives, she examines how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through engagements with the traces of political violence, displacement, and social change in Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian Atlantic.
EUGENIA KISIN
FILM & EXHIBITION
REVIEW EDITOR
Eugenia Kisin is assistant professor of art and society at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. A visual anthropologist by training, she teaches classes about contemporary art and environmental justice, with a particular interest in cultures of display. Her forthcoming book, Aesthetics of Repair, considers how Indigenous artists extend ancestral protocols for bringing about just relations between persons, things, and territories in the extractive economies of the Pacific Northwest. Her Museum for Future Fossils project, a scholar's workshop and summer school organized with Kirsty Robertson (Western University), explores curatorial practice in the Anthropocene.
NATALIE UNDERBERG-GOODE
BOOK & ELECTRONIC MEDIA REVIEW EDITOR
Natalie Underberg-Goode is professor of digital media and folklore and director of games and interactive media in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. Her research examines the use of digital media to preserve and disseminate folklore and cultural heritage, with a focus on digital storytelling and participatory new media design and practice. She is author (with Elayne Zorn) of Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media (University of Texas Press, 2013), editor of a special issue of the international journal Visual Ethnography, and has written over thirty peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and conference proceedings.
KAT TIMM
DESIGN ASSISTANT
Kat Timm (she/her) is an artist and Master's Student at the University of Cincinnati whose practice lies at the intersection of art and anthropology. Her current research explores how anthropologically-informed design and placemaking can create environments that facilitate informal education, nourish feelings of connection and belonging, and foster community-building that transcends cultural and species boundaries. She was VAR’s tireless design assistant until funding ran out in 2023 and has helped with several research projects and design projects at VAR.
ALONSO GAMARRA
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Alonso Gamarra is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at McGill University. Gamarra’s research examines how food intersects with the demands of everyday life. It focuses on the experiences of farmers, market workers, and activists in Peru’s southern region of Arequipa, where the country’s neoextractive economy makes social worlds increasingly uncertain.
PAST EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Darcie DeAngelo UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA (2020–23)
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (2018–21)
Fiona P. McDonald UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, OKANAGAN (2019–21)
Rupert Cox UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (2016–19)
Jenny Chio UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (2015–18)
Mark Westmoreland LEIDEN UNIVERSITY (2013–16)
Brent Luvaas DREXEL UNIVERSITY (2012–15)
Laura Lewis UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (2007–13)
Liam Buckley JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY (2007–12)
Najwa Adra AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2004–06)
Andrea Walsh UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA (2004–06)
Peter Biella SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY (2003)
J. David Sapir UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (1998–2001)
Nancy Lutkehaus UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (1994–97)
Sarah Williams UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (1993)
Lucien Castiang-Taylor HARVARD UNIVERSITY (1990–94)
UPDATED JAN 1, 2024