Damien Stankiewicz

Damien Stankiewicz

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Anthropology

    Associate Professor

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
    • Global Studies
Office Location

242 Gladfelter Hall

Expertise

Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Media, Digital Anthropology/Digital Methods, Political Anthropology, Far-right Politics, Nationalism, France, Europe

Biography

Damien Stankiewicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His research examines national identity and nationalism in Europe, principally France. His research focuses especially on the role that screen and digital media play in (re)configurations of borders and belonging as the nation-state and national identity are unmade and remade through multidirectional pressures of globalization, Europeanization, populism, and nativism. His first book, Europe Un-Imagined (University of Toronto Press, 2017) examines how staff at ARTE—a self-consciously transnational television channel located on the French-German border—went about crafting media intended to cultivate a trans-border European identity. His second project focuses on the French far-right and on the differences and intersections between face-to-face politics and digital politics. He is also working on a book about the advantages of an anthropological approach to aging and dying. Stankiewicz received his BA from the University of Chicago (2003), and his Certificate in Culture and Media (2006) and PhD (2011) from New York University.

Website

Selected Publications

  • "Nationalism Without Borders: Contradictory Politics at a Transborder European Media Organization." American Ethnologist 44(4). November 2017.
  • "Against Imagination: On the Ambiguities of a Composite Concept.” American Anthropologist 118(4): 796-810. December 2016.
  • “Europe.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press. May 2016.
  • “The Politics of Cartoon in Anthropological Context: Charlie Hebdo and the Legibility of Genre,” Contemporary French Civilization, Special Issue: The Impossible Subject of Charlie Hebdo. May 2016.
  • Europe Un-Imagined: Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
  • “Re-Gathering the Imagined Audience: Shifting Conceptions of Publics at a Transnational Television Channel in Europe.” Television and New Media Vol. 15(5):487-503. July 2014.

Courses Taught

  • Anthropology of Mass Media
  • Introduction to Production of Anthropological Media
  • Public Culture
  • Ethnographic Film and Media
  • Anthropologies of Europe and the West
  • Representing Race