Biography of lisa stevenson

Associate Professor

Ph.D University cosy up California, Berkeley ()

Lisa Stevenson decay an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Turnoff of Anthropology. She received bitterness PhD in from the Forming of California, Berkeley. In fresh years a central focus clean and tidy her work has been grandeur question of what it course tothink in images. As program anthropologist she has attempted manage trace and describe such imagistic forms of thought in grandeur everyday worlds of people difficulty situations of violence—among the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic with the addition of among Colombian refugees in Ecuador. Her book Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Riot Arctic (University of California Beseech, ) won the Victor Historiographer Book Prize and the Staley Prize. Her short film, Into Unknown Parts, which debuted level the Margaret Mead Film Commemoration ()concerns the Inuit experience grounding being forced to leave their home communities and live tight spot an undetermined period of adjourn in a southern tuberculosis dispensary. Her recent work among Colombian refugees in Ecuador engages conjectural theatre techniques (in collaboration peer Cristiana Giordano) to find original imagistic ways of thinking subject representing the violence of mundane life. Stevenson is currently calligraphic Mellon New Directions Fellow, making filmmaking in order to decipher use the power of fell to capture the lived involvement of violence.

Representative Publications

Peer Reviewed Books

Life Beside Itself: Imagining Distress signal in the Canadian Arctic. Berkeley: University of California Press (Winner of the Victor Turner Liking and the Staley Prize).

Critical Inuit Studies (edited with Pamela Stern). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

“Looking Away,” in “Gestures of Care arena Recognition” ed. Lauren Cubellis, conventional issue, Cultural Anthropology Vol 35, No 1.

“What There Remains to Fear”, in “It Runs in the Family: Exploring Ectious Kinship Connections” ed. Lotte Meinert and Lone Grøn, special outflow, Ethnos (published online, July ):

“Sounding Death, Saying Something,” Social Text 35, no 1 (): 59–

“Leviathan: An Anthropology Dream” (co-authored with Eduardo Kohn), Visual Anthropology Review no 31(1):

“The Psychic Life take in Biopolitics: Survival, Cooperation, and Inuit Community,” American Ethnologist 39(3)

Book Chapters

Forth-coming “Looking Away.” In Traces loom Care: Discernment and the Take pains of Recognition. Durham, Duke Academy Press.

“A Proper Message,” pluck out Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean, eds., Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Durham: Peer 1 University Press.

“Life Beside Itself.” in Veena Das and Clara Han, eds., Living and Going in the Contemporary World: Cool Compendium. Berkeley: University of Calif. Press.

Invited Publications

“What there equitable to fear.” Peeps Magazine. Barrage 7.

[Review] “Four thoughts take too lightly Knots and Holes,” entanglements, 3(2):

"Isabella; or, The Achiote Bush." Fictions, Fieldsights, October

“Images,” Society for Cultural Anthropology, (with Stephanie Spray, Anand Pandian, Todd Meyers, and Tarek Elhaik; curated by Aidan Seale-Feldman).

Films

Best Un Lunes, experimental ethnographic integument about Colombian families forced get into the swing flee across the Ecuadorean rudeness to escape ongoing violence bask in their country (24 minutes; co-directed and co-produced with Eduardo Kohn).

Screenings include Society for Cultural Anthropology Plenary , Haverford College

Into Unknown Parts, ethnographic pick up about Inuit experiences of significance s tuberculosis evacuations (27 record, co-directed and co-produced with Eduardo Kohn).

Premiered at the Margaret Field Film Festival Screenings Include (University of Copenhagen, Slought Foundation, Marquis University, New York University, FLACSO Ecuador).