Alexandra Dantzer, PhD is a cultural anthropologist specializing in insomnia. Her work contributes to critical conversations in medical anthropology, temporality, and urban life. Her manuscript “Awake in the World; Insomnia and the Arts of Living in Belgrade” merges ethnographic theory and historical contextualization with poetic and multimodal elements demonstrating how creative forms can deepen analytic insight. Probing the limits of ethnographic inquiry, her writing examines familiar expressions - racing against time, feeling out of sync, not present, exhausted, adrift from one’s own time, not being in control - which reveal how time is not only learned but disciplined through the everyday routines of modern life. She is an author of a collaborative book “Glossary of Insomnia” in which she explores the experience of sleeplessness through poetry, short stories, essays, and images. She is an award-winning filmmaker, and has published extensively on insomnia, tracking technology, ethics in anthropological research and existential experiences suck as stuckness. She works as an editorial intern for the American Ethnological Society.