An overview of my favorite anthropological projects. These range from ethnographies, presentations, papers, and exhibits. For more information on the topics below, please contact me!
Anthropology Projects
League of Blerds Senior Thesis
For my 2021 anthropology thesis, I launched an ethnographic fieldwork study examining how POC anime fans leverage digital communities. My findings uncovered how fandoms double as a space for appreciation and creation. Through discussion (and memes), storylines are transformed beyond the source material to become more inclusive.
The study consisted of 2 months of interviews, audits, weekly participant observations, and regular anime marathons.
Year
2021
Hostile Terrain 94
A participatory exhibit organized by the Undocumented Migration Project in collaboration with anthropologist Jason De León and Chapman University. The project illustrates the physical effect of policy as tags represent the individual migrants who passed while crossing the Sonoran Desert between the 1990s and 2019.
Click this link to see more of the project.
Year
2020
“I Don’t Mean to Offend…”
As a research project in 2019, The study was conducted to explore how discussions of race and ethnicity are framed in public relations (PR) education by the perspective of professors. While other studies focused on the lack of representation in the field, this study focuses on how racial inclusivity in the context where professionals first learn about PR: the college classroom.
A combination of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and syllabus analysis was used to conduct this study. I presented my findings at the 2019 American Anthropology Association Conference and the 2019 National Conference for Undergraduate Research.
Year
2019
Other Topics of Study:
Animation & Feminist Theory
Animation & Globalism
Pop Culture
Fandom Culture
Afro-Futurism
Media Studies
Digital Hoodoo/Voodoo Communities
Inclusive Storytelling