Debbora Battaglia, PhD

Debbora Battaglia received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. She has presented and published extensively on the anthropology of futures, most recently at intersections of technoscience, posthuman relations and conceptual art, with a focus on insular environments. Her books include “E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces” (Duke UP), “Rhetorics of Self-Making”, (ed.) (University of California Press), and “On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in a Melanesian Society” (University of Chicago Press), in addition to a monograph and special issues. Her awards include the fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and the 2010 Five College 40th Anniversary Professorship.