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David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Anthropology; Director, Graduate Program in Culture and Media; Director, Center for Media, Culture & History; Co-Director, Center for Religion and Media
Ph.D. 1986, CUNY, B.A. 1976, Barnard.
Email:
Personal Homepage: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~fg4/
Research Interests: Social anthropology; ethnographic
film; indigenous media; social movements in the United States; gender and reproduction.
Selected Works:
Forthcoming. Mediating Culture: Indigenous Identity in a Digital Age. Duke University Press.
2002. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Co-edited with Lila Abu-Lughod & Brian Larkin. University of California Press.
2002. 9/11 and After, A Virtual Case Book. Co-edited with Barbara Abrash.
1995. Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Co-edited with Rayna Rapp. University of California Press.
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Edited Volume Prize, 2004.
1990. Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Co-edited with Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Boston: Beacon Press.
1989. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in An American Community. University of California Press.
American Sociological Association, Sociology of Culture Book Award, 1992.
Society for Medical Anthropology Eileen Basker Memorial Award for Research on Gender and Health, 1990.
Village Voice Outstanding Books of 1989.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Hans Rosenhaupt Book Award, 1989.
Second Edition, 1998.
net.library Edition, 1999.
In preparation:
“My media studies: Remote ideas” in Television and New Media Studies, Toby Miller, ed.
"Paradigm shift: The Two Laws effect," in The Two Laws Special Issue, Dossier 3, Studies in Documentary Film, Helen Grace and Deane Williams, eds. Intellect Press.
"Native Intelligence," in Visions of Culture: A History of Visual Anthropology, eds. Jay Ruby, M. Banks, University of Chicago Press.
"Peripheral Visions: Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship," in Cinema at the Periphery, eds. Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, Belen Vidal, Wayne State University Press.
Articles:
2008. "Rethinking the Digital Age," in Global Indigenous Media, Pam Wilson, Michelle Stewart, eds. Atlanta: Duke University Press.
2008. "Mass Media, Anthropology, and Ethnography," in The Sage Handbook of Film Studies. ed. James Donald, SAGE: London, pp. 216–225 (REPRINT).
2007. "Enlarging Reproduction/ Screening Disability," in Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium, ed. Marcia Inhorn. Berghahn Books, London (with Rayna Rapp).
2007. "Found in Translation," in Media Res, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/videos/, launched 3/27/2007.
2006. "A History of Indigenous Futures," (with Fred Myers). Special Issue of Aboriginal Histories. Vol. 30: 95–110.
2006. "Ethnography and American Studies," Cultural Anthropology. Aug 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 487–495.
2006. "Indigenous Television. With Lorna Roth," in Studying TV: An Introduction, Glen Creeber, ed. London: British Film Institute, pp 146–152.
2005. "Black Screens and Cultural Citizenship," Special Issue, Visual Anthropology Review: 80–97.
2005. "Rethinking the Voice of God in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media," in Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere, Birgit Myer and Annelies Moors, Eds. Indiana University Press.
2005. "Media Anthropology: An Introduction," in Media Anthropology, Eric Rothenbuhler and Mahai Coman, eds. Sage: 17–25.
2005. "Dans le Bain Avec Rouch," American Anthropologist 107(1) March: 109–112.
2005. "Ciné-Trance: A Tribute to Jean Rouch (1917–2004)," Co-editor with Jeff Himpele, Special Section for American Anthropologist, 107(1) March 2005.
2005. "The latest in reality TV? Māori Television stakes a claim on the world stage," with April Strickland, in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television & Media Culture. June 2005.
2005. "Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic!" in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television & Media Culture.
2005. "The Unwired Side of the Digital Divide," in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. March 18, 2005.
2005. "Rethinking the Digital Age," in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. January 21, 2005.
2004. "10,000 Years of Media Flow," in Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. Nov 19. Vol 1(4).
2004. "Steps to the Future: AIDS and Media Activism in South Africa," with Barbara Abrash, Visual Anthropology Review 19: 1–2.
2004. "Atanarjuat Off-Screen: From “Media Reservations” to the World Stage," American Anthropologist, 105(4), December: 827–831.
2003. "Smoke Signals and Screen Memories," in Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media, Ella Shohat and Bob Stam, eds. Rutgers University Press, pp. 77–98.
2002. "First Peoples Television. with Lorna Roth in Television Studies Toby Miller, ed. London: The British Film Institute.
2002. "Fieldwork at the Movies: Anthropology and Media," in Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, ed. Jeremy MacClancy, Univ. of Chicago Press, pp. 359–376
2002. "Introduction: The Social Practice of Media," in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (California).
2002. "Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media," in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Ginsburg, Abu-Lughod, Larkin, eds., California
2002. "Standing at the Crossroads of Genetic Testing: New Eugenics, Disability Consciousness,Women’s Work," (w/ Rayna Rapp) GeneWatch: A Bulletin of the Council for Responsible Genetics 15(1).
2001. "Enabling Disability: Renarrating Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship," with Rayna Rapp. Public Culture 13(3) special issue on Disability Criticism.
1999. "Fetal Reflections: Confessions of Two Feminist Anthropologists as Mutual Informants," in The Fetal Subjects: Feminist Postions. Lynn Morgan and Meredith Michaels, eds.(Pennsylvania)
1998. "Institutionalizing the Unruly: Charting a Future for Visual Anthropology," Ethnos 63(2) pp. 173–196.
1998. "Rescuing the Nation: Operation Rescue and the Rise of Anti–Abortion Militance," in Fifty Years' War: A Half Century of Abortion Politics, 1950–2000. Rickie Solinger, ed. California
1997. "From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Indigenous Media and Cultural Activism," in Between Resistance and Revolution, Dick Fox and Orin Starn, eds. Rutgers University Press.
1995. "The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film, Visual Anthropology Review, 11(2).
[1999] reprinted in Visible Evidence. Michael Renov and Jane Gaines, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
1995. "Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order," in Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press).
1995. "Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity," in Fields of Vision: Essays in Film Studies, Visual Anthropology and Photography, Leslie Deveraux and Roger Hillman, eds., University of California Press, pp. 256–290.
1995. "Production Values: Indigenous Media and the Rhetoric of Self–Determination," in The Rhetoric of Self–Making. D. Battaglia, ed. University of California Press.
1995. "Introduction: Conceiving the New World Order," (with Rayna Rapp) in Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. F. Ginsburg and R. Rapp, editors; Univ. of California Press.
1994. "Some thoughts on Culture & Media," Visual Anthropology Review 10(1) Spring.
1994. "Culture and Media: A (Mild) Polemic," Anthropology Today 10(2): 5–15.
1993. "Embedded Aesthetics: Creating A Discursive Space for Indigenous Media," Cultural Anthropology 9(2).
[2002] reprinted in Planet TV: A Global Television Reader, Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, eds. New York: New York University Press.
[2003] reprinted in Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader, Justin Lewis and Toby Miller, eds. Oxford: Blackwell, 88–99.
1993. "Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation," in Visual Anthropology Review 9(2): 92–98.
1993. "Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary," in Public Culture, 5(2) Special issue on television.
1991. "Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?" Cultural Anthropology, 6(1): 92–112.
[1994] reprinted in Rereading Cultural Anthropology. G. Marcus, ed.
1990. "Introduction," in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon Press).
1990. "The 'Word–Made' Flesh: The Disembodiment of Gender in the Abortion Debate," in Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. F. Ginsburg, A. Tsing, editors, Boston: Beacon Press.
Current News / Projects
Updated July 2009
I continue to direct the Program in Culture and Media (the graduate training program http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/cultmedia.htm) with Teja Ganti, Cheryl Furjanic, and Noelle Stout, and guest professor Pegi Vail in Anthropology and Jonathon Kahana in Cinema Studies. I also am Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/media/ (an interdisciplinary center) with Barbara Abrash; as well as Co-Director of the Center for Religion and Media with Angela Zito.
• During the academic year, I was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and had the opportunity to give major lectures at campuses in Hawaii, Virginia, and Minnesota. In New York City, I presented work on indigenous media at the Cooper Union interdisciplinary seminar on art and activism; and at the “Open Video” conference held at the NYU Law School June 19-21, 2009, for a panel “Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Ethics in Video: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities.” In May, I was fortunate to be asked to be the interlocutor with documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto for the opening night of her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
Indigenous Media
I am completing a book based on research over the last decade with indigenous filmmakers entitled “Mediating Culture.” It looks at the positive challenges posed by the development, circulation, and multiple meanings of indigenous media worldwide — with a particular focus on Aboriginal Australia — to the field of visual anthropology, and the globalization of cultural processes. Recent articles addressing this research include:
• “Breaking the Law with Two Laws,” for Studies in Documentary Film Vol. 2(2);
• “The Oka Crisis: The Power of a Woman with a Movie Camera,” in Alanis Obamsawin: 270 Years of Resistance (with Audra Simpson); and
• “Rethinking the Digital Age,” in Global Indigenous Media, Pam Wilson, Michelle Stewart, eds. And republished in The Media and Social Theory, edited volume, Jason Toybee & Desmond Hesmondalgh.
Forthcoming this year are:
• “Native Intelligence: A Short History of Debates on Indigenous Media,” for Visions of Culture: A History of Visual Anthropology, eds. Jay Ruby, M. Banks, University of Chicago Press (also translated for L’Homme)
• “Peripheral Visions: Blak Screens and Cultural Citizenship,” for an edited collection Cinema at the Periphery
I also launched a week of lively online discussion for the excellent online journal, “In Media Res,” on May 4, 2009:
• Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV, http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/05/01/beyond-broadcast-launching-nitv-and-isuma-tv.
A number of our current and former students participated as contributors and commentators including: Amahl Bishara (now at Tufts), Lucas Bessire, Ernesto de Carvalho, Amalia Cordova, Kristin Dowell (now at Oklahoma), Daniel Fisher (now at MacQuarie), Aaron Glass (now at Bard), Eugenia Kisin, Lisa Stefanoff, April Strickland, and Sabra Thorner
Work on Disability
I am continuing research, writing and activism on disability; Rayna Rapp and I are continuing our collaborative work together on Cultural Innovations and Learning Disabilities, which has received funding from the Spencer Foundation as well as the Institute for Human Development and Social Change. Together we presented a paper, “Reverberations: Disability across the Life Course” (with Rayna Rapp), at The Scholar and the Feminist Conference XXXIV, The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life, Barnard College, 2/28/09. My paper “The Canary in the Gemeinschaft: Jews, Disability and Film” will be published in a volume entitled “Deus in Machina,” edited by Jeremy Stolow..
As founding co-director of NYU’s Council for the Study of Disability (with support from the NYU Provost’s office), I have been working, since 2009, with Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of the Disabilities Network of NYC, to run a very lively monthly screening program at NYU called disThis http://www.disthis.org/. We also are starting a pilot program at NYU, beginning in September 2009, for young adults with learning disabilities, called “Transition to Life.”
Center for Religion and Media (http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/religionandmedia/)
Along with NYU colleague Angela Zito (Director, Religious Studies), I received a major grant from the Pew Foundation to start a Center for the Study of Religion and Media at NYU, which was launched in May 2003. Among our projects are “The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press,” edited by journalist/writer Jeff Sharlet, http://www.therevealer.org/ We are also developing internet publications, in particular a prototype for a web-based resource, Modiya, developed by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler for the working group on Jews, Religion and Media http://modiya.nyu.edu/, and a project in development entitled “Proseletyzing Media.”
The Center for Media, Culture and History
The Center, http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/media/, which I have run for the past decade with Barbara Abrash, addresses issues of representation, social change, and identity construction embedded in the development of film, television, video, and new media worldwide. We have recently received a grant from the Ford Foundation to work with them in their project “Transformation of Public Service Media in the 21st Century,” a project that is being directed by Barbara Abrash. The Center includes Internet publications that we are calling “Virtual Case Books”: The first was based on the mobilization of small and vernacular media forms in response to 9/11 http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb/case_911.html.
Program in Culture and Media
This year, in addition to the work of the students in Anthropology’s Video Production Seminar, culminating in our annual May “Docs on the Edge” screening with an outstanding group of films. Two of the student works, “Carmen’s Place” by Anna Wilking, and “Desigirls” by Ishita Srivastava, were selected to be part of the student pitch project for the Silverdocs Film Festival in Washington, D.C.
Lucas Bessire’s film, “From Honey to Ashes” (2008, 48 min., Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources, http://www.der.org/films/from-honey-to-ashes.html), screened this year at the 2009 Native American Film and Video Festival.
Ernesto de Carvalho’s film – made with Hunikui filmmaker Zezinho Yube with the Video in the Villages project, “Já Me Transformei em Imagem/I’ve Already Become an Image” (Brazil 2008, 32 min.), also screened at the 2009 Native American Film and Video Festival.
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