https://www.dukeupress.edu/disability-worlds This interview took place on Zoom rather than email, and has been edited to reflect our vibrant conversation Bridget Bradley: Having followed yo…
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/between-self-and-community/9781978831384/ Hyemin Lee: Your book wonderfully illustrates the encounters between globally dominant socialization ideologies…
I wish I could say the 99th page of my dissertation was somehow at least partiallyilluminating about what I tried to say with my doctoral research, but alas.…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sovereign-attachments/paper Drew Kerr: I’m so excited you’ve taken this time to discuss Sovereign Attachments! It sits as one among, now, a number of urgent book-…
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speaking-with-the-dead-an-ethnography-of-extrahuman-experience/ Kristina Wirtz: Congratulations on this lovely book, Matt! It is a fascinating and empathetic ac…
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Learning-to-Love2 Jiarui Sun:. Throughout the book you have emphasized that New Life, the psychospiritual self-development program you studied, did not “have an…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo214237970.html Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli Bonnie Urciuoli: What arguments in your book seem relevant right after Trump’s victor…
https://utorontopress.com/9781487543686/moving-words/ Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader…
My dissertation investigates the semiotics and politics of contemporary (Yucatec) Maya-language media in the Mexican Yucatán.* Page 99 appears in chapter two, which examines how announcers at a…
When offered the chance to take the page 99 test, I imagined that page 99 of mydissertation would have little to do with its core purpose—using anthropology as…
Page 99 of my dissertation offers only a half-page of writing. The top half contains a screenshot from YouTube of the original soundtrack (OST) for the Hum TV…
Hyemin Lee: Your book, Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau, offers an insightful exploration of the anthropological question of how senses…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/millennial-north-korea Haeeun Shin: Could you share about your intellectual trajectory of Millennial North Korea? What triggered you to have an interest…
I was hoping page 99 of my dissertation would include data documenting face-to-face interactions among children in Manu’a, American Samoa, from my 2015-2017 fieldwork. No luck. It only…
Elina Choi and Joshua Babcock Image by Wolf for Pixabay AI anxieties are widespread today. But how new are these concerns? Generative AI technologies have come on the scene relatively re…
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547093/the-unnaming-of-kroeber-hall/ Carolina Rodriguez Alzza: The book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall states that its focus is not on whether Kroeber Hall should…
My dissertation analyzed the work of self-described Thai “design activists” who designed a building’s form, programming, and m…
When I took on this challenge, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would happen to contain some brilliant insight of mine, or at least some…
What do folklore, folklife, folk music, folk medicine, folk belief, and folk horror have in common? Apparently, something, although just what is open to debate. It all hinges,…
Carrie Lane: If you were addressing an audience of new college grads about to begin their post-college careers, how would you describe your book and its argument? Claudia Strauss:…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776465/throw-your-voice/#bookTabs=1 Alex Warburton: Your two main sites, a puppet theater and a children’s group home, aren’t obviously connect…
Diego Arispe-Bazán: The argument of the book hinges on the concepts of communicative care and convivencia (living together). How did you identify these phenomena ethnographically, and how have…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/incommunicable Daniel Krugman: This book is clearly a cumulation of thinking throughout your career arriving at a generative and fruitful apex. When was the first mo…
Tarleton Gillespie: This book is so many things, and I’m really excited that it’s out and can now be taken up in so many conversations – about the…