Faculty Spotlight Fall 2022

Christian Hammons (Associate Teaching Professor)

Professor Hammons presented clips from his new documentary feature American Refuge at Ethnography in Progress in April.  He organized "The Portal of Eternal Return," a satellite program for the Society for Cultural Anthropology biennial conference in June, and co-presented "American Refuge: The Chronotope of Ethnofiction" at Visible Evidence in Gdansk, Poland in August.  He will present American Refuge at the Visual Research Conference at the AAAs in Seattle in November and serve as a juror at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, which he will co-direct next year.  He also continues to serve as the on-set guardian of his daughter Sophia Hammons, who recently wrapped production on the new Hulu series Up Here.  The series will premiere in early 2023.