Federico Dupont Bernal is a PhD student in cultural anthropology at Duke University. His research examines how sports gambling in Colombia entangles desire, technology, and finance, focusing on gamblers as heterogeneous subjects navigating speculation, uncertainty, and risk. He holds an MA (2023) and BA (2021) in anthropology, as well as a BA in political science (2021) from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
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Speculating like a Gambler: Fieldwork, Drawing, and Everyday Futures in Colombia
Over the last fifteen years, Colombia has seen an exponential expansion of legal online sports betting that has transformed the way people engage with sports. G... 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