Dannah Dennis
Dannah Dennis is an anthropologist who studies formations of personal, political, and gendered subjectivities, with a particular focus on social media. Much of her research has been centered in Nepal and the Nepali diaspora. Her work has been published in American Anthropologist, positions: asia critique, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, South Asian History and Culture, Himalaya, Media as Politics in South Asia, Anthropology and Humanism, Tasveer Ghar, and elsewhere. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Virginia in 2017 and has held faculty positions at NYU Shanghai, Hamilton College, and Bucknell University. She was formerly a program officer and postdoctoral researcher for the Data Fluencies Project at the SSRC and is currently a program officer at the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Posts by Dannah Dennis:
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A Caribbean Lens to the Climate Crisis: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe
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Navigating Data Politics at the Heart of AI Policy: A Workshop Summary from the Data Fluencies Project
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Interpreting Transnational Code Worlds/Work: A Conversation with Héctor Beltrán
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Yik Yak on Campus: Navigating Identity and Violence through Hyperlocal Anonymity