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Lee Douglas is a visual anthropologist, curator, and filmmaker who is currently a Marie Sklowdowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Combining ethnographic research and multimodal media production, she unpacks how the past is reconstructed and the future reimagined through collective and individual engagements with the traces of political violence, displacement, and decolonization in the Iberian Atlantic. At present, she is the IP for the project "Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories" (MSCA-IF-2019-895197) which analyzes individual and collective uses of the material and visual traces left by entangled historical events: the Carnation Revolution that marked an end to Portugal¿s Salazar dictatorship; the conclusion of the Portuguese imperial project; and the return migrations sparked by these events. Prior to her work at the IHC, she was a Lecturer of anthropology and visual culture at New York University-Madrid and a Research Fellow in the Collections Department at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. She is the Co-Editor in Chief of Visual Anthropology Review, a member of the Writing with Light Editorial Collective, and a Working Group Leader for the TRACTS Cost Action Network (CA20134). As a scholar, educator, and practitioner, Douglas is committed to forms of collaborative visual research capable of mobilizing anthropological research findings across disciplines and borders. In this spirit, she has undertaken multimodal media projects to elucidate how the past bears on the present through diverse visual forms.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Lee Douglas

Citation names

  • Douglas, Lee

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B61A-37BC-2E27
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3916-8527

Email addresses

  • ldouglas@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/09 - 2017/01
Concluded
PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Sociocultural Anthropology
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, United States

University of Oxford - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, United Kingdom
"Producing Historical Knowledge in a World of Absence: Forensic Science, Cultures of Documentation, and the Politics of Memory in Post-Franco Spain " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
3.94 / Cum laude
2009/09 - 2015/01
Concluded
MPhil in Sociocultural Anthropology (Magister)
Major in Sociocultural Anthropology
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, United States
2009 - 2015
Concluded
Graduate Certificate in Culture & Media (Postgraduate Certificate)
New York University, United States
"What Remains (30 min.), co-directed with Jorge Moreno Andrés" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010/06/01 - 2010/07/15
Concluded
Photography & Human Rights (Graduado)
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, United States

Magnum Foundation, United States
2007/10 - 2008/09
Concluded
MSc in Visual Anthropology (Master)
Major in Visual in Anthropology
University of Oxford - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, United Kingdom
"Photographs that Perform Memory and Disappearance: The movement of photographs of desaparecidos from everyday private realms of mourning to everyday 'collective' remembrance and the construction of a Cordobes memory space" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Distinction
2000/09 - 2005/01
Concluded
BA in Individualized Studies (Bachelor)
New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, United States
3.67
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/01/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2017/07/01 - 2018/12/31 Postdoc (Research) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/02 - 2021/12 Lecturer (University Teacher) New York University - Madrid, Spain
New York University - Madrid, Spain
2020/09 - 2020/12 Lecturer (University Teacher) IE Business School, Spain
2019/08 - 2019/12 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of California Education Abroad / Accent International, Spain
University of California Education Abroad Program, Spain

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/01/08 - 2020/06/30 Director of Educational & Cultural Programming (ASM) International Institute of Spain, Spain

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/01/01 - Current Co-Editor-in-Chief Visual Anthropology Review, United States
2020/05/01 - Current Editor (anthropological photo essay publication and digital platform) Writing with Light Magazine, United States
2017/03/01 - 2020/04/30 Editor & Member of WwL Curatorial & Editorial Collective Writing with Light, United States
2011/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Visual Essays Editor Anthropology Now, United States
2011/09 - 2012/05 Emergency Fund Editorial Intern Magnum Foundation, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/10/28 - 2025/10/27 Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (COST ACTION)
TRACTS
Working Group Co-Leader & Proposer
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Ongoing
2006/03 - 2007/05 Collective Memory & the Photographic Image: The Role of Argentine Photography During Dictatorship & Democracy
Fulbright Research
Principal investigator
Fulbright Commission, Argentina
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2022/12/31 Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories: The Visual and Material Traces of Revolution and Return in Contemporary Portugal (MICoMe)
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Ongoing
2012/12/01 - 2013/11/30 SPBuild: Sustainable Peace Building
PhD Student Fellow
CCHS - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Universidad de Deusto, Spain
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Socio Economic Sciences and Humanities
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2018 - 2021 Decentralized Modernities: Art, politics, and counterculture in the transatlantic axis from the Cold War to contemporaneity
Selected Member
Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Disseny i Imatge, Spain
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
Concluded
2016 - 2018 BELOW GROUND: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspective
Selected Member
CCHS - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Concluded
2013 - 2015 El pasado bajo tierra: Exhumaciones y políticas de la memoria en la España contemporánea en perspectiva transnacional y comparada
Selected Member
CCHS - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Douglas, Lee; Meiselas, Susan; Hughes, Helen; Weinstein, Luis. Chile from Within / Chile desde dentro (Digital PhotoBook). London, United Kingdom: MAPP Editions. 2013.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Douglas, Lee. "Forensic vision: witnessing the Civil War in post-dictatorial documentary film and photography". In The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture, edited by Lubar Messeri, Robert; Afinoguénova, Eugenia; Schammah Gesser, Silvina. United Kingdom: Edinburgh Press, 2022.
    Submitted
  2. Douglas, Lee. "Evidencia(s) Corporal(es): Deshacer la ausencia para revelar la violencia". In Revolver el tiempo. Conceptos críticos, mutaciones históricas y estéticas entre la Guerra fría y la contrarrevolución neoliberal, edited by Ruido, Maria; Barreiro López, Paula. Madrid, Spain: Bellaterra, 2022.
    Under revision
  3. Douglas, Lee. "Combatiendo la ausencia: La ciencia forense y la política de identificación desde una perspectiva global". In Cartografía de la desaparición forzada en Colombia, edited by Gómez Nadal, Paco, 125-133. Germany: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, 2019.
    Published
  4. Douglas, Lee. "Bones, Documents, & DNA: Cultural Property at the Margins of the Law". In The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property, edited by Anderson, Jane; Geismar, Haidy, 418-430. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published
  5. Douglas, Lee; Moreno Andres, Jorge. "Correspondencias desde el exilio: La vida social de las fotografías familiares de los exiliados de Ciudad Real". In Pasados de violencia política: Memoria, discurso y puesta en escena. Madrid, Spain: Anexo Editorial, 2016.
    Published
  6. Douglas, Lee. "The Evidentiary Regimes of Science & Sight: Forensic Science and the Exhumation of the Past". In Human Rights/Copy Rights: Visual Archives in the Age of Declassification, edited by Gómez-Moya, Cristián. Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, 2013.
    Published
Book review
  1. Douglas, Lee. "The Death of the Perpetrator: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Cadavers of Criminals of Mass Violence, edited by Sévane Garibian". Review of La muerte del Verdugo: Reflexiones interdisciplinares sobre el cadáver de los criminales (2018): https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/04/04/the-death-of-the-perpetrator-interdisciplinary-reflections-on-the-cadavers-of-criminals-of-mass-violence-edited-by-sevane-garibian/.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Douglas, Lee. "To Stand Watch: Observation and vision in Spanish Exhumation Projects". Minneapolis, 2016.
    Published
Journal article
  1. "Undoing Absence: Reflections on the Counter-Forensic Photo Essay". Writing with Light Magazine 1 1 (2022): 4-7. www.doi.org/10.14288/908X-W279.
    Open access • Published
  2. Douglas, Lee; Ruido, Maria. "The Labor of Film, the Production of Memory: The Materiality of Portuguese Militant Cinema During and After Revolution (abstract accepted)". Romanic Review, Special Issue "Iberian Materialities" (2022):
    Open access
  3. DeAngelo, D.; Douglas, L.. "Return to Reinvent". Visual Anthropology Review (2022): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85129609515&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/var.12266
  4. Douglas, Lee. "Seeing like a scientist: subjunctive forensics and shared ways of seeing in the Spanish forensic archive". Huarte de San Juan. Geografía e Historia 28 (2021): 143-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.48035/rhsj-gh.28.7.
    Open access • Published • 10.48035/rhsj-gh.28.7
  5. Douglas, Lee. "Buscar, pero no encontrar: la producción del conocimiento histórico en un mundo de ausencias". Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.84053.
    Open access • Published • 10.4000/nuevomundo.84053
  6. Rosón, María; Douglas, Lee. "The things they carried: a gendered rereading of photographs of displacement during the Spanish Civil War". Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 21 4 (2020): 459-483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2020.1842082.
    Published • 10.1080/14636204.2020.1842082
  7. Douglas, Lee. "The Arts of Recognition". Anthropology Now 7 3 (2015): 76-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2015.1103619.
    Published • 10.1080/19428200.2015.1103619
  8. Douglas, Lee. "Mass graves gone missing: Producing knowledge in a world of absence". Culture & History Digital Journal 3 2 (2014): e022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.022.
    Open access • Published • 10.3989/chdj.2014.022
  9. Hristova, Marije; Douglas, Lee; De Kerangat, Zoé; Ferrándiz, Francisco. "Violence and the politics of memory in a global context: An overture". Culture & History Digital Journal 3 2 (2014): e012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.012.
    Open access • Published • 10.3989/chdj.2014.012
Journal issue
  1. Douglas, Lee; Campbell, Craig; Westmoreland, Mark; Shankar, Arjun; Choi, Vivian. "Photography, Forensics, and the Politics of Recognition". Writing with Light Magazine 1 1 (2022): www.doi.org/10.14288/908X-W279.
    Published • Coeditor
  2. Douglas, Lee; Ferrándiz, Francisco; Hristova, Marije; de Kerangat, Zoé. "Culture & History Digital Journal". Culture & History Digital Journal 3 2 (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.v3.i2.
    Published • 10.3989/chdj.2014.v3.i2 • Coeditor
Newspaper article
  1. Douglas, Lee; Minguito, Álvaro. "Do you remember Franco? Entrevista con Clemente Bernad", El Salto, 2021, Fotografía, https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fotografia/entrevista-clemente-bernard-fotografo-libro-do-you-remember-franco.
Online resource
  1. Douglas, Lee. Exhibition Review "The Mexican Suitcase". 2010. https://materialworldblog.com/2010/12/the-mexican-suitcase/.
  2. Douglas, Lee; Geismar, Haidy. Corresponding author: Geismar, Haidy. Event Review "Belong Through the Lens". 2010. https://materialworldblog.com/2010/06/belong-through-the-lens-a-summary-of-nyus-visual-citizenship-conference/.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. Hingley, Liz; Saxer, Martin; Flores, Alejandro. 2018. "Writing With Light: Explorations in Ethnographic and Documentary Photography (curator in collaboration with the Writing with Light Collective)".
  2. 2012. "Human Rights / Copy Rights: Archivos visuales en la edad de la desclasificación (research contributor)". In Human Rights / Copy Rights: Archivos visuales en la edad de la desclasificación.
  3. 2012. "Artless Photographs (curator with Stephanie Sadre-Orafai)".
Video recording
  1. Lee Douglas, Maria Ruido, Paula Barreiro López (Director). 2022. La revolución (es) probable.
  2. Douglas, Lee; Lee Douglas (Producer); Lee Douglas & Jorge Moreno Andrés (Director). 2017. "What Remains" in Culture & Media Volume 2: Stories from the Archive. Documentary Educational Resources.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06/01 Visual Reverberations: Memory, Revolution, & Counter-Archives Invited Talk
Department of Anthropology, University of St. Andrews (St Andrews, United Kingdom)
2022/05/06 Between Forensic Evidence and Sensorial Memories: Digital Technologies, Image Archives, and Narrating Experiences of Displacement & Diaspora Photo Archives VIII: The Digital Photo Archive (international conference)
University of Basel & Kuntsthistorisches Institut in Florenz–Max Planck Institut (Basel, Switzerland)
2021/12/15 Among Suitcases, Boxes, & Personal Objects: Photography, Returnees, and Narrating the End of Portuguese Empire Photography and History (International Conference)
ICNOVA, Universidade de Madeira, Atelier Vicente's Museu de Fotografia (Funchal, Portugal)
2021/09/17 "I Can't Breathe": A Necropolitical Reading of Race, the Visuality of Death, and New Visual Ecologies for our Pandemic Times A neoliberal counter-revolution? Cultural Imaginaries, Political Subjectivities, and New World Order
MACBA & Universidad de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2021/05/21 O olhar forense: imagens, evidências e conhecimento na Espanha contemporânea Oficinas da História e Imagem
Instituto de História Contemporânea - NOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/05/11 Seeing Like a Scientist: Photography, Evidence, and Knowledge in the Forensic Archive ANSO Colloquium
Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Graduate Institute (IHEID) (Geneva, Switzerland)
2021/04/27 Forensic Science in the Subjunctive Mood: Mass Grave Exhumations and Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain Lecture
Department of History, Texas State University (Austin, United States)
2021/04/21 Visual Heritage: Teaching Human Rights Across Histories of Disappearance Art, Memory, Politics Colloquium
ExESMA Memory Site & Human Rights Museum, New York University - Buenos AIres (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2021/02/21 Images of Colonial (Dis)possession in Contemporary Portugal: The Material Traces of Mobility and Return from the Periphery (cancelled - UCU strike) Material, Visual, and Digital Anthropology Graduate Seminar
Department of Anthropology, University College London (London, United Kingdom)
2020/07/21 Between Revolution and Transition: Reflections on Filmmaking and the Production of Knowledge EASA 16th Biennial Conference
Virtual Event
2019/12/04 The Forensic Archive: Photography, Evidence & Knowledge in 21st Century Spain Towards a Political History of Photography: Social Movements and Photographic Practice (Seminar)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain)
2019/07/26 Of Names & Icons: Photographic Evidence and the Narration of Gender Violence Memory Studies Association Annual Conference
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2019/06/20 A Conversation with Milagros de la Torre Arts & Cinema in 21st-Century Peru: Aesthetics, Politics, Platforms
Institute for Latin American Studies - University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2019/05/26 A Trace not Meant to Be: Performance, Ephemerality, and the Politics of Representing Latin American Memories of Violence in Spain Latin American Studies Association Meetings
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (Boston, United States)
2019/03/27 The Valley of the Fallen: The Politics of Re-membering Violence in Contemporary Spain Invited Lecture
New York University - Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2019/02/25 A Trace Not Meant to Be: Performance, Ephemerality, and the Politics of Collection Lecture
Department of Museum Studies, New York University (New York, United States)
2018/12/18 Desvelar: en contra de la censura Voces Situadas 5: Políticas de la memoria y fracturas democráticas: pugnas, silencios y bloqueos en torno a la dictadura en el presente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain)
2018/07/18 Over, On, In: Forensic Vision and the Iconography of Recuperation Disturbing Bodies: Mass Violence, Mass Graves and Necropolitics
Universidad del País Vasco (Donostia, Spain)
2018/06/01 A Trace that was Never Meant to be: Performance, Ephemerality, and the Representation of Political Violence in a Museum Collection Art, Materiality and Representation
Royal Anthropological Institute & British Museum (London, United Kingdom)
2017/12/18 Memoria, imagen, y articulaciones políticas Invited Lecture
Departmento de Antropología - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2017/12/02 Documenting Austerity, Evidencing Crisis: Spanish Photography in the Subjunctive Mood American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
American Anthropological Association (Washington D.C., United States)
2017/07/06 New Forensic Iconographies Below Ground: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives (Seminar)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (CCHS-CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
2016/11/17 Made to be Seen: Forensic Science, Photographic Evidence, and the Unruly Boundaries of the Law American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
American Anthropological Association (Minneapolis, United States)
2016/06/03 The Death of an Amnesiac and the Dignity of the Masses: Amnesty, Austerity, and Memory at the End of the Spanish Transición VI Congresso da associação portuguesa de antropologia
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/05/26 The Death of the Amnesiac and the Dignity of the Masses: Forensic Labor in Times of Crisis Rastros y rostros de la violencia (seminario)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (CCHS-CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
2016/04/18 Images of What Remains: Reflections on Documentary Practice and the Narration of Violence in Contemporary Spain Invited Lecture
New York University - Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2016/03/28 Science, Memory and Visual Evidence: An Introduction to Visuality & Historical Knowledge Production in Contemporary Spain Invited Lecture
New York University - Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2015/12/08 Twenty-Thousand Histories: The Spanish Historical Memory Movement Invited Lecture
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, New York University (New York, United States)
2015/11/22 Crafting Evidence: Acts of Exhumation and the Re-Fashioning of Historical Truth in Contemporary Spain American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
American Anthropological Association (Denver, United States)
2015/09/25 Acts of Exhumation: Forensic Evidence and the Re-Fashioning of Historical Truth Science Ethnography Working Group
Department of Anthropology, New York University (New York, United States)
2015/09/24 Memory Politics in Spain and Southern Europe Invited Lecture
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University (New York, United States)
2015/07/03 What Remains: Reflections on Documentary Practice, the Language of Cinema, and the Narration of Violence Body, Science, Memory, and Politics in Contemporary Exhumations
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (CCHS-CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
2014/07/11 Documents, Paper, Photographs: Archival Traces & the Production of Memory Thinking Memory Through Space: Materiality, Representation and Imagination (Goldsmiths)
Goldsmiths College - University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2014/03/07 Digital Evidence, Visual Testimony: Forensic Science, Archival Practice, and the Production of History in Post-Franco Spain Archive/Image: New Archival Epistemes in the Digital Landscape
OSA Archives (Budapest, Hungary)
2014/02/25 La imagen forense: entre evidencia y narrativa Devenir documento de arte: archivo, desclasificación y derechos humanos
Centro de Estudios - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA) (Barcelona, Spain)
2013/11/29 Rethinking Digital Technologies: Photobooks, Digital Books, and Access Digital/Aural Memories Seminar
Matadero Madrid & Soundreaders (Madrid, Spain)
2013/09/11 Exhuming Evidence: Forensic Science as a Technology of the Visual Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation and Human Rights
Hemispheric Institute & CLACS, New York University (New York, United States)
2013/05/08 Conspicuous Absence: Making Censorship Visible in the 21st Century Photo Exhibit “Exhuming Graves, Recuperating Dignity”
Halle St. Gèry Gallery (Brussels, Belgium)
2012/07/03 From Human Form to Anatomical Illusion: Photographing Forensics in Post-Franco Spain Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference
(Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Descartes, Paris Diderot, Paris 13, Institute of Physics of the Globe, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Science Po, and EHESP School of Public Health and UNESCO (Paris, France)
2011/11/17 Reappearing the Disappeared: Forensic Science, Photographic Practice, and the Politics of Remembrance in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Spain American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
American Anthropological Association (Montreal, Canada)
2010/03/05 Analog Memories and Digital Resistance: The Visual Economy of Photographs of the Disappeared in Post-Dictatorship Argentina The Limits of Memory Conference
New School for Social Research (New York, United States)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2017/03/01 - Current Photography in Times of Crisis: Remembrance, Imagination, and the Politics of Documenting Violence Conference Panel organized with Zahira Aragüete-Toribio, reviewed by the Society for Visual Anthropology (2017/12/02)
Other (Co-organisor)
American Anthropological Association, United States
2017/03/01 - Current Writing with Light: Reimagining the Anthropological Photo-Essay Roundtable organized with Craig Campbell, Mark Westmoreland, Vivian Choi, & Arjun Shankar, reviewed by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (2017/12/02)
Round table (Co-organisor)
American Anthropological Association, United States
2017/01 - Current Making Images, Unpacking Archives: Visual Methodologies, Memory, and the Production of Alternative Bodies of Knowledge in Contemporary Spain Conference Panel organized with Zahira Aragüete-Toribio “Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and its Aftermath” Warm Festival (2017/06/30 - 2017/07/02) WARM Center on Contemporary Conflicts, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015/03 - Current Science and Statecraft: 21st-Century European Bureaucracies Conference Panel organized with Johanna Romer, reviewed by the Society for Cultural Anthropology American Anthropological Association Meetings – Denver, USA (2015/11/22)
Other (Co-organisor)
American Anthropological Association, United States

WARM Center on Contemporary Conflicts, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2011/11 - Current Pulling Back the Curtain: The Micro, Molecular, and Scientific Remaking of Visibility Conference Panel organized with Christy Spackman & Fiona Rose-Greenland Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference – Paris, France (2012/07/02 - 2012/07/06)
Other (Co-organisor)
Crossroads Association for Cultural Studies, Finland
2011/03 - Current Unsettling Accounts: Photographs, Traces and Evidence Conference Panel organized with Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, reviewed by the Society for Visual Anthropology American Anthropological Association Meetings – Montreal, Canada (2011/11/17)
Other (Co-organisor)
American Anthropological Association, United States
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/07 Tracing (Climate) Crisis, Visualizing Change: Towards a (Counter) Atlas of the Trace (2022/10/06 - 2022/10/07)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01 Peripheral Memories and Transnational Mobilities: Decolonial Approaches to Material and Visual Traces of Empire (2022/09/30 - 2022/10/01)
Meeting (Other)
Teatro Bairro Alto, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Comunicação da Nova, Portugal
2021/03/15 - 2021/06/25 Olhando-nos de frente: Espanha, Portugal e suas imagens Laboratórios políticos e culturais na Europa do século XXI Seminário internacional (2021/06/24 - 2021/06/25)
Seminar (Other)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2019/11 - 2020/07 New Horizons for Anthropological Authorship: Co-Creation and the Production of Knowledge in Times of Global Change Conference Panel for EASA 16th Biennial Conference Conveners: Lee Douglas & Harsha Menon Discussant: Carlo Cubero (2020/07/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2018/01 - 2018/07 Theorizing the Photo-Essay in Anthropology Seminar and Workshop funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2018/06/04 - 2018/06/07)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas-Austin, United States
2015/01 - 2015/07/31 Cuerpo, ciencia, memoria y política en las exhumaciones contemporáneas International Conference (2015/07/02 - 2015/07/03)
Conference (Other)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spain

CCHS - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2013/05 - 2013/09 Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation, and Human Rights International Symposium (2013/09/10 - 2013/09/11)
Symposium (Other)
Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics, United States

New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, United States
2013/01/08 - 2013/07/30 Thinking Memory Through Space: Materiality, Representation, Imagination International Conference (2013/07/11 - 2013/07/12)
Conference (Other)
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, United Kingdom
2012/01 - 2012/04 Science/Art Studies Seminar & Workshop (2012/04/06 - 2012/04/08)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, United States

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, United States

Social Science Research Council, United States

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/01/01 - Current Oficinas da História e Imagem Invited Participant, Monthly Research Workshop
Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2022/01/21 - 2022/01/21 Precarious Positions: Forging Solidarity in Scholarly Publishing
Workshop
American Anthropological Association, United States

Society for Visual Anthropology, United States

Society for Cultural Anthropology, United States
2020/12/01 - 2020/12/01 Revisioning the Pitch: A Workshop with Visual Anthropology Review Selected Participant, “Raising our Voices” Event Series
Workshop
American Anthropological Association, United States

Society for Visual Anthropology, United States

Visual Anthropology Review, United States
2020/09/21 - 2020/09/28 Imaginarios de la revuelta, archivo vital y reconfiguración de la experiencia desde la pandemia Con Nelly Richard (2-day seminar)
Seminar
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
2017/09/28 - 2017/09/30 Archivos del común II: El archivo anómico
Seminar
Fundación de los Comunes, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
2017/06/17 - 2017/06/23 Flaherty Film Seminar "Future Remains," programmed by Nuno Lisboa
Seminar
Flaherty Seminar, United States

Colgate University, United States
2017/06/08 - 2017/06/08 Photography Expanded: Collaborative Approaches to Creative Documentary Practice
Seminar
Magnum Foundation, United States

Open Society Documentary Photography Project, United States
2015/12/11 - 2015/12/12 Archivos del común I
Seminar
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain

Fundación de los Comunes, Spain
2015/11/01 - 2015/11/01 Photography Expanded Annual Symposium
Symposium
Magnum Foundation, United States

Brown Institute For Media Innovation, United States
2015/03/28 - 2015/03/28 Photography Expanded: Responsible Data Lab
Workshop
Magnum Foundation, United States

Open Society Documentary Photography Project, United States
2011/10 - 2012/05 Selected member of the "Forum on Forms of Seeing," a transdisciplinary group of graduate scholars working on visual culture. Included regular seminars, presentations on research, and a final conference presentation
Conference
New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, United States

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2021/07/05 - Current Quaderns de Filologia (2444-1449) Universitat de Valencia
2021/05/14 - Current Huarte San Juan. Geografía e Historia (2341-0809) Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
2020/10/26 - Current Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural (2340-1869) Universitat de Valencia
2019/02/18 - Current Visual Anthropology Review (1548-7458) Wiley / AAA
2018/06/08 - Current Public Culture (1527-8018) Duke University Press
2017/11/04 - Current Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (1469-9818) Taylor and Francis
2016/12/14 - Current Cultural Anthropology (0886-7356)
2014/10/27 - Current Contemporaneity. Historical Presence in Visual Culture (2153-5914) Pitt Open Library Publishing
2013/07/15 - Current Anthropology Now (1942-8200) Taylor and Francis

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/03/08 - Current Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento (AIM) Member
2020/02/12 - Current European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Member
2019/11/18 - Current Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI) Member
2018/07/11 - Current Memory Studies Association Member
2016/03/31 - Current Society for Cultural Anthropology Member
2014/05/18 - Current Society for Visual Anthropology Member
2013/01/01 - Current Memorias en Red (MeR) Member
2010 - Current American Anthropological Association (AAA) Member
2009/10/01 - 2016/12/31 Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/08/15 - 2020/12/31 Community, Society, and Culture - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (undergraduate core course) Behavioral & Social Sciences (Bachelor) IE Business School, Spain
2020/02/01 - 2020/05/31 Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory (undergraduate seminar) History & Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University - Madrid, Spain
2019/08/15 - 2019/12/31 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Nation in Contemporary Spain (undergraduate seminar) Anthropology & Spanish Studies (Bachelor) University of California Education Abroad Program, Spain
2019/02/01 - 2019/05/31 Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory (undergraduate seminar) History & Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University - Madrid, Spain
2018/02/01 - 2018/05/31 Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory (undergraduate seminar) History & Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University - Madrid, Spain
2017/02/01 - 2017/05/31 Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory (undergraduate seminar) History & Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University - Madrid, Spain
2015/02/01 - 2015/05/31 Cultures and Contexts: Caribbean (undergraduate core) Course Assistant to Dr. Aisha Khan Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University, United States
2011/08/20 - 2011/12/31 Anthropology of Media (undergraduate anthropology elective) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Tejaswini Ganti Anthropology (Bachelor) New York University, United States
2009/03/01 - 2009/07/31 Political Violence, Disappearance, and the Image of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina (undergraduate research seminar) History (Bachelor) Universidad Diego Portales Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Chile

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022/01/13 - Current Peer Review for academic book proposals and manuscripts (Anthropology)
Evaluator

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017/03/01 - 2020/04/30 Writing with Light (peer-reviewed photo essays) Cultural Anthropology & Visual Anthropology Review

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/10/18 - Current Jury member for the National Spanish Photography Prize. Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain
2022/02/24 - Current Editorial Board Member, CVSN Publication for students in the "Critical Visions" undergraduate program University of Cincinnati, United States
2022/01/01 - 2022/09/09 Jury Member for the "Mostra de Antropologia e Cinema" VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia "Os novos anos 20: Desafios, incertezas, resistências" Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2017 George Stoney Fellowship
Flaherty Seminar, United States
2015 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, United States

American Council of Learned Societies, United States
2015 Humanities Initiative Dissertation Fellowship (declined)
New York University, United States
2012 Andrew Sauter Award
New York University, United States
2012 Annette B. Weiner Fellowship
New York University, United States
2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
Social Science Research Council, United States
2011 Tinker Foundation Summer Research Grant
New York University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, United States
2010 Council for the Study of Media & Culture Award
New York University, United States
2009 MacCracken Fellowship
New York University, United States