current
celebrity, violence, and mystic arts
book project
Abu Dhabi Public Spaces
collaboration
projects
Crosscurrents of Contagion: Snakes, Rumors, Rivers, and Ebola in Sierra Leone’s Borderlands
publication
”The Internet Is Helping Us / The Internet Is Killing Us”
photo video installation
The Shameless Ugliness of Gongoli
photo video installation
Out of War (review)
publication
Times Past Under Fire: Accounting for the Efficacy of Reconciliation Rituals in Sierra Leone
publication
The Art of Emergency: Aid and Aesthetics in African Crises
publication
Sensory Ethnographic Methods in Kerala
teaching
A Disarmament Program for Witches: Antiwitchcraft, Postwarcraft, and Rebrandcraft
publication
“Sierra Leone” in The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
publication
Ritual Labor
in South India
film installation
Letting the Mask Slip: The Shameless Fame of Sierra Leone’s Gongoli
publication
Projet Z.E.R.O.
film installation
Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive
films
Harmattan (review)
publication
Visions from the Forests (review)
publication
Lutu Chuktiwa
film
Ndogboyosoi
film installation
Star Maps
film
Firestone
film
Inherent Vice: Contagion and the Archive in The Times Square Show
publication
A Life in Photography
film
dance films Ouagadougou
film
La vie dans un jour
film
Samuel Mark Anderson researches West African expressive culture and its encounters with violence, politics, and public health. His work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, and the U.S. Fulbright Program. Currently senior lecturer at NYU Abu Dhabi, he holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA, and served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
+1 323 703 9624 • samuelmarkanderson@gmail.com