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Dr Alyssa Grossman PhD

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media (Culture, Space & Memory) Communication and Media

    Research

    Visual anthropology and ethnographic film

    Visual and material culture; the use of audio-visual media in research and fieldwork; experimental methodologies; intersections between the fields of anthropology and contemporary art; intersections between between anthropology and surrealism.

    Everyday sites and practices of cultural memory

    Unofficial and inadvertent memories; memory and forgetting; critical heritage studies; museums and archives; the relationship between remembrance work and audio-visual-sensory media/methods.

    Romania and post-communism

    Memory practices in the post-communist context; contemporary Romanian visual culture; post-communist transition; Eastern Europe.

    Research Grants

    Little Familiar Objects: Decolonising Erland Nordenskiöld’s Colonial Rock Collection

    BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

    August 2022 - August 2024