We are pleased to announce that Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, along with Debashree Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian Studies, and Brian Larkin, Professor of Anthropology, have been awarded a Global Humanities Projects Grant.
The grant supports their project Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies which conceives of “ecology” as methodology as well as material reality, both fundamentally predicated on the specificities of time and place. With India, China, and Nigeria as their primary sites of study, the lead faculty hope to initiate a broad conversation on campus on the ways in which media condition our sensory environments, the ecologies of media labor and production, and the urgent need to think with “other” media from “other” places.