Ethnographic Poetry: A Conversation with Ather Zia
This interview with Professor Ather Zia was conducted on March 31, 2018, at the University of Michigan (UM) where she […]
Mary Pena
Mary Pena engages in multidisciplinary practices that explore space, materiality, visual culture, embodiment and the senses. She is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Museum Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her dissertation project fuses modes of ethnography and photography to ask how the changing material composition of low-income communities, targeted for tourism renewal, place pressure on residents' sense of belonging and everyday experiences in the northern port town of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. She is also a founding member of Making Sensory Ethnography, a graduate student-led collective dedicated to experimental formats of knowledge creation at the University of Michigan.