Laboratory in Visual Anthropology

Catalog description

This lab introduces students to the collaborative, intellectual, and practical operations of a Visual Anthropology Lab. Students gain practical experience working as part of a team to support ongoing research, programming, and production while developing independent and collective projects. The course emphasizes hands-on participation in lab maintenance, scheduling, event planning, and research development. Activities include reading recent issues of journals such as Visual Anthropology Review and Multimodal Anthropologies, audiovisual analysis, and works-in-progress critiques. Students build professional skills by writing book, film, or exhibition reviews, conducting interviews, and proposing curations and programming. Designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates engaged in independent research.