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Kregg Hetherington, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Bart Simon, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Orit Halpern
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Dr. Maria-Carolina Cambre, PhD
Assistant Professor, Education
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Martin French
Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Bengi Akbulut
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Govind Gopakumar, PhD, LLFM
Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
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Kevin A. Gould, PhD
Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
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Tina Hilgers, PhD
Associate Professor , Political Sciencehttp://www.llacs.ca/
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WhiteFeather Hunter
Researcher & lab coordinator
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Dr. Rilla Khaled, PhD
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
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Dr. Jean François Mayer
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Christopher Lloyd Salter, PhD
Professor - Computation Arts, Design and Computation Arts
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Mark K. Watson, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Hillary Kaell, PhD
Associate Professor, Religions and Cultures Faculty Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
Kregg Hetherington, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. KreggHetherington is a political anthropologist specialized in environment,infrastructure and the bureaucratic state.
He haswritten extensively about how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrariantransition in Paraguay have experienced that country’s halting transition todemocracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practicinggovernment. His book, Guerrilla Auditors, is an ethnography of peasant landstruggles in Paraguay, and of how rural thinking about property and informationcome into conflict with bureaucratic reform projects promoted by internationalexperts.
He iscurrently leading two research projects. The first, the Government of Beans, focuses on regulation in the soybean boomin Latin America’s southern cone is transforming the relationship betweenstates, plants, people and territory. The second, Montreal Waterways, is a collaborate ethnography of Montreal’srelationship with water as a defining feature of its environment andinfrastructure.
Kregg is director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, where he leads a research group onInfrastructure and Environment. He supervises graduate students working in a wide range of areas, including environment and food, social movements,infrastructure studies and the ethnography of the state. He is currently recruiting students who are interested in becoming involved in the Montreal Waterways project.
Bart Simon, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Simon’s research is focused on the areas of science and technology studies, critical post-humanism and everyday technocultures with specific interests in digital culture, games and virtual worlds, and simulation, surveillance and social control.
In 2004, Simon launched the Montreal GameCODE project, a Concordia-based research initiative to examine the cultural impact of digital games. In 2009 he became the director of a new broader cross-faculty research initiative in Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG).
His recent publications include ‘Geek Chic: Machine Aesthetics, Digital Gaming, and the Cultural Politics of the Case Mod’, ‘Never Playing Alone: The Social Contextures of Digital Gaming’ and ‘Beyond Cyberspatial Flaneurie: On the Analytic Potential of Living with Digital Games’.
Orit Halpern
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Orit Halpern is a Strategic Hire in Interactive Design and Theory and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design and art practice. Her recent book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke Press 2015) is a genealogy of interactivity and our contemporary obsessions with “big” data and data visualization. She is now working on two projects. The first, titled The Smartness Mandate, is a history and theory of “smartness”, environment, and ubiquitous computing and the second, tentatively titled Resilient Hope, examines the forms of planetary futures being produced and destroyed through high-technology large scale infrastructural projects.
She has also published and created works for a variety of venues including The Journal of Visual Culture, Public Culture, Configurations, C-theory, and ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
She has an MPH. from Columbia University School of Public Health, and completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the History of Science. She has also held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the Graham Foundation, Digital Culture Research Lab at Leuphana University, the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, and the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt.
Dr. Maria-Carolina Cambre, PhD
Assistant Professor, Education
My interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking. Thus, I look at representation mainly through semiotics, anthropological and sociological theory, and with respect to the literature in visual cultural studies, communication and discourse analysis. I use various frameworks and lenses, generally with a critical focus. I am interested in theoretical investigations within the realm of semiotics and ethics broadly speaking especially in relation to communication and the visual. I conduct artistic research through creative research & exploration, again centering on concerns around visualities & representation.
Bengi Akbulut
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Govind Gopakumar, PhD, LLFM
Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
Govind Gopakumar is Chair and Associate Professor at the Centre for Engineering in Society. Govind Gopakumar received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 2008.
Kevin A. Gould, PhD
Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Dr. Kevin Gould’s research explores the politics of environmental and economic policy-making in the Americas. He is particularly interested in policies authorized by technical knowledge, and his current research examines how military experts framed development projects during the Cold War in ways that favored elites and reified exclusionary visions of race, nation, and nature. Building on new economic geography and political ecology literature, Dr. Gould’s work investigates the politics of market-assisted land reform, post-disaster reconstruction, environmental impact assessment, and Cold War infrastructure development. Through his research, he seeks to challenge the often violent transnational processes and epistemologies that connect Canada, the United States and Guatemala. Before arriving at Concordia University, Dr. Gould received his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia (2009) and spent one year as a research fellow at Dartmouth College.
Tina Hilgers, PhD
Associate Professor , Political Sciencehttp://www.llacs.ca/
My research deals with informal politics, particularly clientelism and patronage, and urban violence. My primary geographic area of interest is Latin America and the Caribbean.
I currently hold a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project investigating the link between Latin American citizens’ evaluations of governance along institutional, economic, and identity-based lines and their decisions to engage in clientelism; as well as a Fonds de recherche du Québec grant to study resilience to urban violence. I am also a member of the Fonds de recherche du Québec funded “Équipe de recherche interuniversitaire sur l’inclusion et la gouvernance en Amérique latine” (Interuniversity Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America, ÉRIGAL).
I direct the Lab for Latin American and Caribbean studies (www.llacs.ca) and am a member of the Governing Board of the Montreal Latin American Studies Network / Réseau d’études latino-américaines de Montréal (relam.ca).
Research interests
Comparative Politics; Informal Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Mexico; Brazil
WhiteFeather Hunter
Researcher & lab coordinator
WhiteFeather is a Canadian artist/researcher, educator and writer currently based in Montreal.
WhiteFeather has been professionally engaged in a craft-based bioart practice for over 15 years via material investigations of the functional, artistic and technological potential of bodily matter. Her work has ranged widely, from the utilization of human hair in traditional textile techniques, to rogue taxidermy soft sculptures of found flesh and bone, to digital/ pop culture representations of the body absent in the technological world. Her current focus, spanning the last three years and encompassing three different international, laboratory-based artist research residencies is on biotextile experimentation and the creation of new, aestheticized vital specimens through hands-on tissue engineering. Additionally, hacking laboratory apparatuses as part of the materiality of the work.
WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winning scholar and professional arts grant recipient, with an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. She has shown and performed work in solo, group and collaborative exhibitions throughout Canada, in the US and Australia, given artist talks internationally and been featured in international magazines, newspapers, hardcover art books and television spotlights. WhiteFeather also saw her work, Alma, go viral in 2012 with 5+ million hits in 3 days, and then again in 2015, both times via reddit front page.
WhiteFeather is laboratory technician and coordinator for the Speculative Life Lab and coordinator for the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster, both situated within the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University.
Dr. Rilla Khaled, PhD
Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Director of Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) lab
Strategic Hire in Digital Media, Learning, and Games
Dr. Jean François Mayer
Associate Professor, Political Science
Dr. Mayer’s research focuses on two areas of concern. First, it studies labor markets and worker organizations in the formal sector of the economy, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. Second, it examines the multifaceted everyday strategies utilized by workers active in the informal economy to resist violence, in Latin American countries. His research was published in: Journal of Politics in Latin America; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Journal of Social Policies; and Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He has co-authored (with Paul Posner and Viviana Patroni) a book, forthcoming with the University Press of Florida, entitledLaboring in Latin America: Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era.
Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses, Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Art, Design, Digital Culture and Technology, Director of Hexagram Concordia and Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts,Culture and Technology.
Salter studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and received his Ph.D. in theater directing and dramatic theory/criticism at Stanford University where he also worked and researched at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). At Stanford, Salter studied with former Brecht assistant Carl Weber as well as pioneers of digital synthesis John Chowning, Max Matthews and Chris Chafe. In the 1990s, he collaborated with theater director Peter Sellars and choreographer William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballet. He was visiting professor in music, graduate studies and digital media at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) before joining Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 2005. He was also Guest Professor at the KhM in Cologne in 2010 and is continuing Guest Faculty at the Masters program in Media Arts History, Institute für Bildwissenschaften,Donau University, Krems, Austria.
Salter’s large scale installations, performative environments and research focuses on and challenges human perception, merging haptic, visual, acoustic and other sensory phenomena. Exploring the borders between the senses, art, design and new technologies, his immersive and physically experiential works are informed by theater, architecture, visual art, computer music, perceptual psychology, cultural theory and engineering and are developed in collaboration with anthropologists, historians, philosophers, engineers,artists and designers.
His work has been shown at major international exhibitions and festivals in over a dozen countries including the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montréal),National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Lille 3000 (Lille), Chronus Art Centre (Shanghai), Fondarie Darling (International Biennale of Electronics Arts – Montreal),HAU3 (Berlin), Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industriel (Gijon, Spain),Nuit Blanche (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), EXIT Festival (Maison des Arts, Creteil-Paris), STRP Biennale (Eindhoven), Ars Electronica (Linz), Pact Zollverein (Essen, Germany), CTM (Berlin), Villette Numerique (Paris),TodaysArt (the Hague), Todays Art.jp (Tokyo), Meta.Morf (Norway), MoisMulti(Quebec), Transmediale (Berlin), Place des Arts (Montréal), Elektra(Montréal),the Banff Center (Banff), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), V2(Rotterdam), SIGGRAPH 2001 (New Orleans), Mediaterra (Athens) and the Exploratorium (SanFrancisco), among others.
Salter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, has given over 100 invited talks at universities and festivals worldwide and has sat on many juries including the Prix Ars Electronica among others. In addition to his artistic work, he is the author of the seminal book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (MIT Press, 2010) and Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (MIT Press, 2015).
Mark K. Watson, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Educaton
PhD (University of Alberta)
Research interests
Indigenous Cultures, Ethnography, Far East & N.A.
Hillary Kaell, PhD
Associate Professor, Religions and Cultures Faculty Member, Centre for Sensory Studies
Hillary Kaell completed her doctorate in American Studies at Harvard University, specializing in the history and practice of North American Christianity. She is author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (New York University Press, 2014) and editor of Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017). Her current FQRSC-funded project examines the development of a global Christian imaginary through the lens of child sponsorship programs.
Dr. Kaell has written for popular audiences online and in print, and collaborated on a number of public education projects, including as a paid consultant on the PBS television series God in America. Currently, she co-curates the Anthrocybib website and co-hosts the New Books in Religion podcast. At Concordia, she teaches courses related to U.S. Christian history, material religion, and anthropology.
She is a faculty fellow with Concordia’s Center for Sensory Studies and has just signed on as co-editor of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion’s book series at Palgrave Macmillan press.
Kregg Hetherington, PhD
Dr. KreggHetherington is a political anthropologist specialized in environment,infrastructure and the bureaucratic state.
He haswritten extensively about how small farmers caught in a sweeping agrariantransition in Paraguay have experienced that country’s halting transition todemocracy, showing how activists create new ways of thinking and practicinggovernment. His book, Guerrilla Auditors, is an ethnography of peasant landstruggles in Paraguay, and of how rural thinking about property and informationcome into conflict with bureaucratic reform projects promoted by internationalexperts.
He iscurrently leading two research projects. The first, the Government of Beans, focuses on regulation in the soybean boomin Latin America’s southern cone is transforming the relationship betweenstates, plants, people and territory. The second, Montreal Waterways, is a collaborate ethnography of Montreal’srelationship with water as a defining feature of its environment andinfrastructure.
Kregg is director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab, where he leads a research group onInfrastructure and Environment. He supervises graduate students working in a wide range of areas, including environment and food, social movements,infrastructure studies and the ethnography of the state. He is currently recruiting students who are interested in becoming involved in the Montreal Waterways project.
Bart Simon, PhD
Simon’s research is focused on the areas of science and technology studies, critical post-humanism and everyday technocultures with specific interests in digital culture, games and virtual worlds, and simulation, surveillance and social control.
In 2004, Simon launched the Montreal GameCODE project, a Concordia-based research initiative to examine the cultural impact of digital games. In 2009 he became the director of a new broader cross-faculty research initiative in Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG).
His recent publications include ‘Geek Chic: Machine Aesthetics, Digital Gaming, and the Cultural Politics of the Case Mod’, ‘Never Playing Alone: The Social Contextures of Digital Gaming’ and ‘Beyond Cyberspatial Flaneurie: On the Analytic Potential of Living with Digital Games’.
Orit Halpern
Dr. Orit Halpern is a Strategic Hire in Interactive Design and Theory and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montréal. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design and art practice. Her recent book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke Press 2015) is a genealogy of interactivity and our contemporary obsessions with “big” data and data visualization. She is now working on two projects. The first, titled The Smartness Mandate, is a history and theory of “smartness”, environment, and ubiquitous computing and the second, tentatively titled Resilient Hope, examines the forms of planetary futures being produced and destroyed through high-technology large scale infrastructural projects.
She has also published and created works for a variety of venues including The Journal of Visual Culture, Public Culture, Configurations, C-theory, and ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.
She has an MPH. from Columbia University School of Public Health, and completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the History of Science. She has also held fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the Graham Foundation, Digital Culture Research Lab at Leuphana University, the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, and the BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt.
Dr. Maria-Carolina Cambre, PhD
My interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking. Thus, I look at representation mainly through semiotics, anthropological and sociological theory, and with respect to the literature in visual cultural studies, communication and discourse analysis. I use various frameworks and lenses, generally with a critical focus. I am interested in theoretical investigations within the realm of semiotics and ethics broadly speaking especially in relation to communication and the visual. I conduct artistic research through creative research & exploration, again centering on concerns around visualities & representation.
Bengi Akbulut
Govind Gopakumar, PhD, LLFM
Govind Gopakumar is Chair and Associate Professor at the Centre for Engineering in Society. Govind Gopakumar received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 2008.
Kevin A. Gould, PhD
Dr. Kevin Gould’s research explores the politics of environmental and economic policy-making in the Americas. He is particularly interested in policies authorized by technical knowledge, and his current research examines how military experts framed development projects during the Cold War in ways that favored elites and reified exclusionary visions of race, nation, and nature. Building on new economic geography and political ecology literature, Dr. Gould’s work investigates the politics of market-assisted land reform, post-disaster reconstruction, environmental impact assessment, and Cold War infrastructure development. Through his research, he seeks to challenge the often violent transnational processes and epistemologies that connect Canada, the United States and Guatemala. Before arriving at Concordia University, Dr. Gould received his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia (2009) and spent one year as a research fellow at Dartmouth College.
Tina Hilgers, PhD
My research deals with informal politics, particularly clientelism and patronage, and urban violence. My primary geographic area of interest is Latin America and the Caribbean.
I currently hold a SSHRC Insight Grant for a project investigating the link between Latin American citizens’ evaluations of governance along institutional, economic, and identity-based lines and their decisions to engage in clientelism; as well as a Fonds de recherche du Québec grant to study resilience to urban violence. I am also a member of the Fonds de recherche du Québec funded “Équipe de recherche interuniversitaire sur l’inclusion et la gouvernance en Amérique latine” (Interuniversity Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America, ÉRIGAL).
I direct the Lab for Latin American and Caribbean studies (www.llacs.ca) and am a member of the Governing Board of the Montreal Latin American Studies Network / Réseau d’études latino-américaines de Montréal (relam.ca).
Research interests
Comparative Politics; Informal Politics; Clientelism; Urban Violence; Developing Areas; Latin America; Mexico; Brazil
WhiteFeather Hunter
WhiteFeather is a Canadian artist/researcher, educator and writer currently based in Montreal.
WhiteFeather has been professionally engaged in a craft-based bioart practice for over 15 years via material investigations of the functional, artistic and technological potential of bodily matter. Her work has ranged widely, from the utilization of human hair in traditional textile techniques, to rogue taxidermy soft sculptures of found flesh and bone, to digital/ pop culture representations of the body absent in the technological world. Her current focus, spanning the last three years and encompassing three different international, laboratory-based artist research residencies is on biotextile experimentation and the creation of new, aestheticized vital specimens through hands-on tissue engineering. Additionally, hacking laboratory apparatuses as part of the materiality of the work.
WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winning scholar and professional arts grant recipient, with an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. She has shown and performed work in solo, group and collaborative exhibitions throughout Canada, in the US and Australia, given artist talks internationally and been featured in international magazines, newspapers, hardcover art books and television spotlights. WhiteFeather also saw her work, Alma, go viral in 2012 with 5+ million hits in 3 days, and then again in 2015, both times via reddit front page.
WhiteFeather is laboratory technician and coordinator for the Speculative Life Lab and coordinator for the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster, both situated within the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University.
Dr. Rilla Khaled, PhD
Director of Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) lab
Strategic Hire in Digital Media, Learning, and Games
Dr. Jean François Mayer
Dr. Mayer’s research focuses on two areas of concern. First, it studies labor markets and worker organizations in the formal sector of the economy, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. Second, it examines the multifaceted everyday strategies utilized by workers active in the informal economy to resist violence, in Latin American countries. His research was published in: Journal of Politics in Latin America; Bulletin of Latin American Research; Journal of Social Policies; and Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He has co-authored (with Paul Posner and Viviana Patroni) a book, forthcoming with the University Press of Florida, entitledLaboring in Latin America: Democracy and Worker Organization in the Neoliberal Era.
Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses, Professor of Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, Co-Director of the Hexagram Network for Research-Creation in Media Art, Design, Digital Culture and Technology, Director of Hexagram Concordia and Associate Director, Milieux Institute for Arts,Culture and Technology.
Salter studied economics and philosophy at Emory University and received his Ph.D. in theater directing and dramatic theory/criticism at Stanford University where he also worked and researched at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics). At Stanford, Salter studied with former Brecht assistant Carl Weber as well as pioneers of digital synthesis John Chowning, Max Matthews and Chris Chafe. In the 1990s, he collaborated with theater director Peter Sellars and choreographer William Forsythe/Frankfurt Ballet. He was visiting professor in music, graduate studies and digital media at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) before joining Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 2005. He was also Guest Professor at the KhM in Cologne in 2010 and is continuing Guest Faculty at the Masters program in Media Arts History, Institute für Bildwissenschaften,Donau University, Krems, Austria.
Salter’s large scale installations, performative environments and research focuses on and challenges human perception, merging haptic, visual, acoustic and other sensory phenomena. Exploring the borders between the senses, art, design and new technologies, his immersive and physically experiential works are informed by theater, architecture, visual art, computer music, perceptual psychology, cultural theory and engineering and are developed in collaboration with anthropologists, historians, philosophers, engineers,artists and designers.
His work has been shown at major international exhibitions and festivals in over a dozen countries including the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montréal),National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Lille 3000 (Lille), Chronus Art Centre (Shanghai), Fondarie Darling (International Biennale of Electronics Arts – Montreal),HAU3 (Berlin), Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industriel (Gijon, Spain),Nuit Blanche (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), EXIT Festival (Maison des Arts, Creteil-Paris), STRP Biennale (Eindhoven), Ars Electronica (Linz), Pact Zollverein (Essen, Germany), CTM (Berlin), Villette Numerique (Paris),TodaysArt (the Hague), Todays Art.jp (Tokyo), Meta.Morf (Norway), MoisMulti(Quebec), Transmediale (Berlin), Place des Arts (Montréal), Elektra(Montréal),the Banff Center (Banff), Dance Theater Workshop (New York), V2(Rotterdam), SIGGRAPH 2001 (New Orleans), Mediaterra (Athens) and the Exploratorium (SanFrancisco), among others.
Salter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, has given over 100 invited talks at universities and festivals worldwide and has sat on many juries including the Prix Ars Electronica among others. In addition to his artistic work, he is the author of the seminal book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (MIT Press, 2010) and Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making (MIT Press, 2015).
Mark K. Watson, PhD
Educaton
PhD (University of Alberta)
Research interests
Indigenous Cultures, Ethnography, Far East & N.A.
Hillary Kaell, PhD
Hillary Kaell completed her doctorate in American Studies at Harvard University, specializing in the history and practice of North American Christianity. She is author of Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage (New York University Press, 2014) and editor of Everyday Sacred: Religion in Contemporary Quebec (McGill-Queens University Press, 2017). Her current FQRSC-funded project examines the development of a global Christian imaginary through the lens of child sponsorship programs.
Dr. Kaell has written for popular audiences online and in print, and collaborated on a number of public education projects, including as a paid consultant on the PBS television series God in America. Currently, she co-curates the Anthrocybib website and co-hosts the New Books in Religion podcast. At Concordia, she teaches courses related to U.S. Christian history, material religion, and anthropology.
She is a faculty fellow with Concordia’s Center for Sensory Studies and has just signed on as co-editor of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion’s book series at Palgrave Macmillan press.