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Damien Stankiewicz

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Damien Stankiewicz

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Anthropology

      • Associate Professor

      • Affiliated Faculty

        Programs

        • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
        • Global Studies

Expertise

Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Media, Digital Anthropology, Digital Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Political Anthropology, Far-right Politics

Biography

Damien Stankiewicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. His research examines the relationship between media and identity. His research has focused especially on the role that media play in (re)configurations of collective and local identities as the nation-state and national belonging are unmade and remade through multidirectional pressures of neoliberalism, populism, and nativism. His first book, Europe Un-Imagined (U 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 more recent research has focused on uses and understandings of AI and digital media among partisans of the French far-right in southern France, and the complex intersections between face-to-face politics and digital politics. Current research examines human-AI interactions and relationships, as well as AI advocacy and regulatory political movements. 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.

Selected Publications

  • Manuscript in preparation: France in Fragments: Digital Politics and the Far-Right in Southern France "AI and the Anti-Politics of the French Far-Right: Ethnographic Approaches to a Floating Signifier.” 2026.
  • Social Anthropology Forum: “AI and the Shifting Terrain of Mediation." Forthcoming.
  • “In/visible politics: Online-offline world-making of the French far-right.” 2026. Anthropological Theory 26(1): 52-77.

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

Media Mentions