I came to Washington University in the fall of 2005 after completing an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and working for three years for Big Brothers/Big Sisters in Albuquerque, NM.
Continuing my education here has enabled me to pursue my interest in the politics of media in Mexico City through the theory and method of Anthropology. My dissertation project is an ethnography of individuals and groups who are self-consciously attempting to redefine political discourse and social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity through the production of digital media and film in Mexico City.
As my interests lie at the intersection of Cultural Anthropology, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, the WGSS Certificate has been especially useful to me as a way of uniting these disciplines. The theoretical background I have gained in the program has given me valuable analytical tools to examine the construction of social categories such as gender, race, and class. The historical background has given me insight into how these categories are experienced by people in their daily lives.
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