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Former AE editorial intern Deniz Daser interviewed Jason De León about his research and plenary talk. AES is excited to feature several plenary speakers at the spring 2016 conference, including [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Deniz Daser (Rutgers University), June 2015 In his May 2015 article in American Ethnologist, “Wit and Greece’s economic crisis: Ironic slogans, food, and antiausterity sentiments,” Daniel M. Knight [...]

AES 2015 Plenary Speaker American Ethnologist (AE): Your work brings together many disciplines – has it always been so, or did you develop a certain interest at some point that drove [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Allison Bloom (Rutgers University), September 2014 Looking back a decade, Carolyn Rouse reflects on her 2004 article in the American Ethnologist, "If she’s a vegetable, we’ll be [...]

Interview by AE Editorial Intern Deniz Daser (Rutgers University) In her May 2014 article in American Ethnologist, “The U.S. Car Colossus and the Production of Inequality,” Catherine Lutz explores how [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Meghana Joshi (Rutgers University) In his February 2014 article in American Ethnologist, “True life, real lives: Revisiting the boundaries between ethnography and fiction,” Didier Fassin [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Deniz Daser (Rutgers University) In the August 2013 issue of American Ethnologist, Heath Cabot’s article about asylum seekers in contemporary Greece explores “an often overlooked [...]

Dominic Boyer (Rice University) talks with Jón Gnarr, Founder of Iceland’s Besti Flokkurinn (Best Party) and Mayor of Reykjavík, April 2013. Gnarr, founder of a political party some term "anarcho-surrealist," [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Deniz Daser (Rutgers University), Spring 2013 In "The Uses of Butterflies," published in American Ethnologist in 2001, Hugh Raffles examines the key “moment of stabilization” in which [...]

Interview by AE editorial intern Deniz Daser (Rutgers University), January 2013 Professor Micaela di Leonardo’s article, “Grown Folks Radio: U.S. Election Politics and a ‘Hidden’ Black Counterpublic” appears in the [...]