Scott Ross is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist working mostly on humanitarian intervention, media technology, infrastructure, and armed conflict in central Africa. He also writes about and engages in social media, activism, and the university more broadly. He is currently Lecturer of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, and he completed his PhD at George Washington University in 2023.
Posts by This Author
An Interview with Adrienne Pine
Scott Ross: In your scholarship and activism, you have taken an applied approach in a number of ways, including testifying in asylum cases, working with unions,... More
Teaching Ethnography in the Heart of Government
From the point of view of the governed—citizens and non-citizens alike—the way government operates can seem like a black box. Despite talk of transparency, the ... More
The Anthropologist as Con Artist: An Interview with Sasha Newell
Scott Ross (SR): This was a really engaging article, and I enjoyed watching the different frames shift as we follow the scheme (or schemes) at the heart of it. ... More
Making Violence Visible: An Interview with Samuel Mark Anderson
Scott Ross (SR): In your article you introduce the notion of a “politics by prospection” which, in its many different forms, involves processes of diagnosis, re... More
Becoming Infrastructural: An Interview with Michael Degani
Scott Ross (SR): In the article, you draw on Sianne Ngai’s argument regarding zaniness’s emergence in response to capitalism’s constant revolutionizing, and you... More
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