Research Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Art + Technology + Media

  • sound, transmission, broadcast

  • video art, experimental film

  • documentary filmmaking 

  • experimental filmmaking

  • extended reality and mixed reality

  • game narratives and gamification

    
     

• Place

  • contested geographies (borders, sites in flux)

  • place and cultural memory

  • sites in memoriam 

  • onomastics

  • Arctic communities, Arctic resilience

  • contested land use

    
     

• Identity + Culture

  • indigenous communities, global indigeneity

  • race and identity

  • migration and displacement

  • refugees

  • queer communities, identity and politics

    
     

• The Nonhuman + Inhumanity

  • ecology and biology

  • bioacoustics

  • animality

  • inhumanity

  • nonhuman industries (fisheries, meat, leather, agriculture, hunting, etc) 

  • the carbon cycle
    

• Indigenous Studies

  • Alaska Native studies

  • cultural preservation and revitalization

  • language loss and language preservation

  • oral histories

  • Native foodways
    

• Curation

  • film festival curation and jurying

  • works that integrate emerging media and technology