SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
If you run into a paywall and want a copy, email me at ta2727@tc.columbia.edu
2024
“People, Decisions, Technology, and Infrastructure: Organizational Models for the Collective Production of Film Curatorship.” American Sociological Association, Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 12th.
“Disorienting Diversity: The Uses and Misuses of Diversity in the Curatorial Process in the MoMA Film Department and Cineteca Nacional.” Mallen Screen Entertainment Conference, Cambridge, UK, September 25th.
“Diversity and Inequality in the Arts.” Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan, June 28th.
2023
“Yuyanapaq: Four Lessons to Approach Temporal Orders in Critical Postcolonial Research.” Comparative-Historical Sociology Section’s Mini Conference, Philadelphia, August 17th.
“Diversity and Inequality in the Arts.” Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan, June 26th.
with Rachel Skaggs. “Workers and Work in the Arts: Definitional Challenges and Approaches to Collective Action among Arts and Creative Workers.” Work and Occupations. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884231162957
“Pay Equity in the Arts.” ArtTable Panel , Ford Foundation, New York City, January 24th.
2022
“In the Dark: The Micro-Organizational Framework to Sustain Film as Art in the Museum of Modern Art.” Poetics 92: 101621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101621
“Archivo Vivo, The Politics of Etcétera’s Archive.” Pp: 22-25 in Etcétera Neo-Extra-Activism, Protocols for Buen Vivir, edited by Re’al Christian. New York, NY: The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics and Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center.
2021
with Janneke van Dalen, Nadia Šičarov and Karen Gracy. “How-To: Sharing Knowledge Among Generations of Archivists.” Journal of Film Preservation 105: 13-22.
“Can the Micro and Macro Reconcile? Giving Meaning to Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Curatorial Process.” American Sociological Association, Annual Virtual Conference, August 7th.
“Behind the Scenes: Film Curatorship and the Collective Production of Culture.” Center for Investigation on North America, Autonomous National University of Mexico (CISAN UNAM) Annual Virtual Conference, June 16th.
2020
“Behind the Scenes: Film Curatorship and the Collective Production of Culture.” American Sociological Association Virtual Conference, August 11th.
“Behind the Scenes: Film Curatorship and the Collective Production of Culture.” Eastern Sociological Society, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 29th.
2019
“In the Dark: The Organizational Culture of the Exhibition of Film in the Museum of Modern Art.” American Sociological Association, New York, August 10th.
2018
“Using Qualitative Methods in Cultural Studies of Film: Participant Observation and In-Depth Interviews.” Graduate Program on Cinematographic Studies, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, November 15th & 29th.
2017
“Cool Labor: The Production and Consumption of a Lifestyle. An Ethnography of Snowboard Instructors.” American Sociological Association Conference, Montreal, August 12th.
“In the Dark: The Culture of Film Watching at The MoMA Film Theaters.” Circuits of Cinema Conference, Toronto, June 24th.
“Visual Ethnography.” Brooklyn College, Anthropology Department, New York, April 7th.
“Aeropuerto. An Experimental Visual-Ethnography of the Future Site of an International Airport in Chinchero, Peru.” Making Home in Wounded Places Synposium: Design, Memory, and the Spatial, New York, March 4th.