Allen Feldman is an anthropologist and professor. He is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

(NYU) Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He has taught at

Central European University Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, the Institute of Humanities Studies in

Ljubljana, Slovenia {{Infobox settlement , name = Ljubljana , official_name = , settlement_type = Capital city , image_skyline = {{multiple image , border = infobox , perrow = 1/2/2/1 , total_widt ...

, and in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. He received a Ph.D. in

cultural anthropology Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term ...

at New School for Social Research, where he also received his M.A. and B.A. His research and teaching interests include visual culture and violence, the political anthropology of the human body and the senses, performance studies, state cultures, and the political archaeology of media and technology. His first book, ''Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland'', was published by the

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It pu ...

in 1991. It is a treatment of the relationship between the objectives of violent politics in Northern Ireland and their application in the methods of real violence as a vehicle for sustaining an ideological content despite its success in achieving political goals. He has been working on a project exploring the relationship between "the mediazation of the war" and the "militization of the media". In May 2003, Feldman organized a conference on the subject, the Future of War: Aesthetics, Politics, Technologies in association with the New School and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council He is editing a collection of essays based on the work of the conference. He is also working on a write-up of his ethnographic fieldwork in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, for which he was awarded a Senior Guggenheim fellowship.

References

External links

Faculty bio at NYU

Faculty profile at NYU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, Allen 21st-century American anthropologists Living people Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development faculty Academic staff of Central European University The New School alumni Year of birth missing (living people)