Anthropologist & Web Developer | MA, Anthropology, University of Southern Mississippi | PhD Student, Anthropology, Binghamton University
I specialize in the anthropology of web development. But, it took me a while to get here. I started in archaeology, switched to sociocultural anthropology, built a career in web development, and then returned to anthropology as a PhD student with a set of ethnographic questions about the nature of the Internet, the people that make it, and the discourse surrounding the way we talk about it. Being an anthropologist today is not what you might expect. Building on a legacy of reflection and critical thought, we thrive in the complex and the particular. Web development, as a set of technologies, an expertise, and an industry, is grappling with its complexity from user behavior to design’s social implications to coding practice. As an anthropologist, I aim to align myself with web developers to flesh out our common interests and anxieties to enrich both anthropological and technical knowledge. (Oh, and I still make websites to pay those student loan bills and to eat. So, email me if you are looking for an anthropologically informed design for your organization or business.)