Adam Rosenblatt is Professor of International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and Faculty Director of the Duke Human Rights Center. A cartoonist and ethnographer of care for the dead, he is the author of Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity (Stanford 2015) and Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds (Stanford 2024).
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Speculative Conversations with Impossible Interlocutors
Animating the Dead via ComicsComics are an art of animism. Since the earliest days of the art form, cartoonists have drawn talking animals, plants, buildings, a... More
Sequential Speculation: Learning and Making Futures Through Ethnographic Comics
In the spring of 2025, the three authors in this series met through a course called Graphic Ethnography: Comics as Research. Adam, Federico, and Joanna—a profes... More
Speculation in Ethnographic Comics
This series features four essays on comics and the speculative imagination in the classroom and ethnographic field research. The authors, who met in a seminar o... More
Engraved: A Family Forensics
“Circulated ‘as if’ they were evidence submissible to courts of law, forensic photographs—like human remains—are evidence of crimes. They are also something els... More