Alix Johnson is a visiting scholar at Concordia University’s Ethnography Lab, a fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies, and a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is broadly concerned with understanding infrastructures and imaginaries of global connection, and her current project traces digital networks in Iceland as a lens on shifting formations of distance, difference, intimacy, and empire. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and has appeared in Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Allegra Lab, and Anthrodendum. At the Ethnography Lab, Alix is active in Montreal Waterways, Writing Circle, and the Workshop Group.