Presedent

Jessica Cattelino

University of California, Los Angeles | jesscatt@anthro.ucla.edu

Jessica Cattelino is a professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, with a courtesy faculty appointment in Gender Studies, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. Her book-in-progress, Water Ties: An Everglades Ethnography, studies rural life amidst ecosystem restoration. She is also the director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center and recently chaired UCLA’s Academic Senate.

Treasurer, 2022-2026

Margot Weiss

Wesleyan University | mdweiss@wesleyan.edu

Margot Weiss is associate professor of American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she directs the cluster in queer studies. She is the author of the award-winning Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke, 2011) and editor of two forthcoming volumes: Queer Then and Now (The Feminist Press) and Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures (Duke). She is currently working on a book about the politics of institutional knowledge production among queer/left activists and academics.

Secretary, 2022-2025

Gökçe Günel

Rice University | gg15@rice.edu

Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Her book Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019) focuses on the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, more specifically concentrating on the Masdar City project. Dr. Günel co-authored "A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography" (2020), and co-leads Patchwork Ethnography.

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Cultural Anthropology, 2026–2029

Bridget Guarasci

Franklin and Marshall College

Bridget Guarasci is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College. She is the author of Warzone Ecology: The Violence of Planetary Repair in Iraq.

Editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2026–2029

Eleana Kim

University of California, Irvine

Eleana Kim is a sociocultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. She specializes in kinship, human/nonhuman ecologies, migration, and the senses, with a regional focus on contemporary South Korea. She is the author of two award-winning books, Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoption and the Politics of Belonging (2010) and Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (2022), both of which were published by Duke University Press. She is also the co-editor, with environmental historians David Fedman and Albert Park, of Forces of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments (Cornell University Press, 2023).

Editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2026–2029

Amelia Moore

Cornell University

Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Environmental Justice, Law, and Policy in the Natural Resources and Environment Section of the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment at Cornell University. She is the author of Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas (University of California Press, 2019) and co-editor of the volume Solarities: Elemental Encounters and Refractions (Punctum Books, 2023). She is also co-editor of the journal Environment and Society: Advances in Research.

Editor, Cultural Anthropology, 2026–2029

Ryo Morimoto

Harvard University

Ryo Morimoto is  Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone (University of California Press, 2023). His current project examines international efforts to use physical AI (robots) for nuclear decommissioning.

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Cultural Anthropology, 2026–2029

Sarah E. Vaughn

University of California, Berkeley

Sarah E. Vaughn is  Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Vaughn’s research interests include climate change/adaptation, the politics of potentiality, technicity, and historical narratives of settlement. She is the author of the award-winning book Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation (Duke University Press, 2022).

2022-2027

Yukiko Koga

Yale University | yukiko.koga@yale.edu

Yukiko Koga is the author of Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire. Her researchexplores emerging moral landscapes for belated imperial reckoning in East Asia as contemporary generations wrestle with the history of settler colonialism, forced migration, and slavery, decades after the formal end of Japanese imperial violence. She is currently working on a book entitled Post-imperial Reckoning: Law, Redress, Reconciliation.

2021–2025

Radhika Govindrajan

University of Washington | rgovind@uw.edu

Radhika Govindrajan is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas, which explores how human relationships with nonhuman animals are drawn into and shaped by broader social and political projects. She is currently working on a book about sex scandals in rural India.

2021–2026

Ramah McKay

University of Pennsylvania | rmckay@sas.upenn.edu

Ramah McKay is the author of Medicine in the Meantime: The Work of Care in Mozambique, which examines the relationship between everyday practices of social production and reproduction and circulating forms of scientific and medical expertise. Her research interests include labor, care, mobility, and knowledge-making, especially in relation to health and place. She is an associate professor in the Department of History & Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sandra Rozental

El Colegio de México | srozental@colmex.mx

Sandra Rozental is an anthropologist and research professor at the Centro de Estudios Históricos at El Colegio de México. She is the author of The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft (Duke University Press, 2026) and co-director of the feature-length documentary The Absent Stone (2013). Her research has focused on the politics of patrimony, the history of archaeology, collections and museums, archival practices, visual cultures, and the production of landscapes and geologies in Mexico. Her current project focuses on the aftermaths of the Parhíkutin volcano in the P'urhépecha regions of Michoacan and in the geological imaginaries of Mexico and the world. She co-founded and coordinates the Interdisciplinary Ethnography Lab of El Colegio de México (LabEtno) and also works as a curator and multimodal media-maker, often in collaboration with filmmakers, photographers, and contemporary artists. Her collaboration with artists Eduardo Abaroa and Emilio Chapela, Estelas del Usumacinta, received Honorable Mention for the 2025 General Anthropology Division New Directions Award.

Can Açıksöz

University of California, Los Angeles | aciksoz@ucla.edu

S. Can Açıksöz is Associate Professor of Anthropology with affiliations in Gender Studies and Disability Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2019). He is currently conducting a collaborative photo-ethnography project with people living with violently acquired disabilities in Los Angeles.

Alex Blanchette

Tufts University | alex.blanchette@tufts.edu

Digital Curatorial Collective, 2022-2026

Andrew Gilbert

Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design | gilbert@burg-halle.de

Andrew Gilbert is a professor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and was up until very recently co-director of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at Humboldt University in Berlin. In addition to two collective experimental research projects (one exploring the possibilities of networked ethnography and the other how to legitimize multimodal forms of research), he is currently working on a collaborative graphic ethnography entitled Reclaiming Dita.

Digital Curatorial Collective, 2022-2026

Joella Bitter

Eastman School of Music | jbitter@esm.rochester.edu

Joella Bitter is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Eastman School of Music, working across the anthropologies of sound and music, critical urban environmental studies, intersectional feminist thought, and Afrodiasporic studies. She has published a digital sonic ethnography, Gulu SoundTracks, together with music producer colleagues in Uganda and is currently working on a book about the ordinary aural politics of city-making.

Digital Curatorial Collective, 2022-2026

Marina Peterson

University of Texas at Austin | marina.peterson@austin.utexas.edu

Marina Peterson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work attends to elemental forces and shifting modalities of matter, exploring diverse and innovative ways of encountering and presenting the ethnographic. Her most recent book, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles, engages mobilizations around airport noise to address ways in which noise amplifies modes of sensing and making sense of the atmospheric. She has co-edited two books on anthropology and art, Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art and Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader and is a founding director of the Bureau for Experimental Ethnography.

Digital Curatorial Collective, 2022-2026

Tomás Criado

Open University of Catalonia | tomcriado@uoc.edu

Tomás Criado is Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the CareNet-IN3 group of the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona. As an urban anthropologist he focuses on different instances of relational knowledge and material politics in settings where care is invoked as a mode of intervention. As part of this work, he has been invested in experimenting with forms of anthropological intervention and multimodal devices for storytelling, joint problem-making or concept work (digital platforms, pedagogic toolkits or games) convening collective venues like xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory or Colleex (Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation, an EASA network). He has recently co-edited An Ethnographic Inventory: Field Devices for Anthropological Inquiries (Routledge 2023) and Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices (Berghahn 2018).

Lead Contributing Editor and Contributing Editor

Noha Fikry

University of Toronto | n.fikry@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Interests: Human-animal relations; anthropology of food; Middle East; ethnography; narrative and writing

Student Representative

Shahana Munazir

University of Wisconsin-Madison | munazir@wisc.edu

Research Interests: Gender, ethics, anthropology of Islam, anthropology of care, future, migration, ethnography, South Asia, India