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LEE DOUGLAS visual anthropologist, filmmaker, c urator Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Universidade Nova de Lisboa Av. de Berna, 26C 1069- 061 Lisboa I Portugal [email protected] / www.leedouglas.net RESEARCH INTERESTS Memory, history, and the production of knowledge in post-violence contexts; History of anthropology and photography; Archives and cultures of documentation; Visual ethnographic methods; Evidence and the social production of truth; Museum collections as sites for the production of knowledge; Film production and visual narrative; Memory politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone and Iberia; Post-colonial memory; Migration and contact zones EDUCATION PhD Sociocultural Anthropology, New York University, 2017 MPhil Sociocultural Anthropology, New York University, 2015 Graduate Certificate Culture & Media, New York University, 2015 MSc Visual Anthropology, Oxford University, 2008 BA Individualized Study, New York University, 2004 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & UNIVERSITY TEACHING Academic Appointments 2021 - Marie Sklowdowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (Individual Fellowship) Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal 2017-2020 Lecturer, Anthropology & Spanish Studies New York University – Madrid, Spain 2017 – 2018 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Collections Department Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Madrid, Spain Additional University Teaching Fall 2020 Lecturer, Program in Behavioral & Social Sciences – IE University “Community, Society & Culture” Madrid, Spain Fall 2019 Lecturer, University of California Education Abroad – UCEAP “Immigration, Ethnicity & Nation in Contemporary Spain” Madrid, Spain SELECTED VISUAL MEDIA Films 2021 Mirándonos de frente / Returning the Gaze (working title), co-director and producer of film essay about the Carnation Revolution, militant cinema and the Spanish Transition, in production. 2015 What Remains, Co-director, producer and editor of ethnographic film (30’) Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (DER) World Premiere: Margaret Mead Film Festival, 2015 Full list of public screenings and film festivals available upon request. Exhibitions 2018 Writing with Light: Explorations in Ethnographic & Documentary Photography Curator & Exhibiting Photographer Spellerberg Projects Gallery – Lockhart, USA 2012 Artless Photographs Curator FotoFocus Photography Biennial, Sycamore Gallery – Cincinnati, USA http://artlessphotographs.tumblr.com/ Photobooks 2013 Chile From Within (ebook). Co-producer and Researcher (with Susan Meiselas, Helen Hughes & Luis Weinstein). Mapp Editions. Visual media, including film, photography, exhibitions and digital multimedia, are key to the production of anthropological knowledge. This section highlights visual media outputs that are the product of ethnographic research. They, like publications and presentations, make important scholarly contributions to the discipline. For examples of this work, please see www.leedouglas.net. PUBLICATIONS *For publications in Spanish, please refer to descriptions clarifying contributions to debates on visuality. Books In preparation Worlds of Absence: Spanish Documentary Practice and Forensic Science in Times of Crisis, Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography. Manchester University Press, invitation to submit from series editor. Expected manuscript submission: Summer 2021. Journal Articles In preparation “The Labor of Film, the Production of Memory: The Materiality of Portuguese Militant Cinema During and After Revolution,” with Maria Ruido, Special Issue: Iberian Materialities. Romanic Review, to be submitted in May 2022. “Fabricating Proof: An Anthropological Analysis of the (Imagined) Visual Evidence of Violence in the Causa General Archive,” Special Issue: Counterfigures of Violence. Quaderns de Filologia (University of Valencia), to be submitted on May 31, 2021. [Spanish] Open-source journal for Linguistics and Literary Studies published by the University of Valencia. This issue brings together analyses from different disciplines regarding visual representations of Francoist violence. It will contribute to debates in Spain and other post- violence contexts regarding visual imaginaries about both perpetrators and victims. Journal awarded the Spanish Foundation for Science & Technology Seal of Excellence. In review “Seeing like a Scientist: Forensic Photography and the Cultivation of Visual Expertise in the Spanish Historical Memory Movement,” Special Issue: Two Decades of Mass Grave Exhumations in Spain. Huarte de San Juan – Geografía e Historia. [Spanish] Open-source journal focusing on the fields of History and Geography. The Special Issue brings together sociocultural anthropologists, forensic scientists, historians and archaeologists to present relevant work on Spanish mass grave exhumations. Contribution discusses forensic photography and cultures of evidence. 2021 “To Search, but not to Find: The Production of Historical Knowledge in a World of Absence,” Special Issue: Unfinished Exhumations: Contingencies in the 2 Search for Human Remains in Post-Conflict Latin America and Europe. Nuevos Mundos, Mundos Nuevos, March 2021, https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.84053. [Spanish] Open-source journal focusing on Latin American from the fields of history and the social sciences. Publishes in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. Special issue focuses on failed exhumations in multiple post-violence contexts and is a product of a seminar (2018) organized by Sophie Baby and Maria Losonczy Casa Velázquez in Madrid. Publication analyses forms of expertise needed to produce knowledge about physical absence. 2020 “The Things They Carried: A Gendered Rereading of Photographs of Displacement During the Spanish Civil War” (with María Rosón), Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 21(4): 459-483, https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2020.1842082. 2015 “The Arts of Recognition,” Anthropology Now 7(3):76-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/19428200.2015.1103619 2014 “Mass Graves Gone Missing: Producing Knowledge in a World of Absence,” Special Issue: Faces and Traces of Violence: Memory Politics in Global Perspective. Culture & History 3(2), http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.022. “Violence & the Politics of Memory in a Global Context: An Overture” (with Francisco Ferrándiz, Marije Hristova, Zoé de Kerangat), Special Issue: Faces and Traces of Violence: Memory Politics in Global Perspective. Culture & History 3(2), http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.012 Special Issues 2014 “Faces and Traces of Violence: Memory Politics in Global Perspective” (edited with Francisco Ferrándiz, Marije Hristova, Zoé de Kerangat), Culture & History 3(2), https://doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2014.v3.i2 Book Chapters In preparation “Forensic Vision: Witnessing the Civil War in Post-Dictatorial Documentary Film and Photography.” The Edinburgh Companion to the Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture, Rob Lubar, Silvina Schammah Gesser and Eugenia Afinoguénova, Eds. University of Edinburgh Press. Expected publication 2022. 2019 “Combatting Absence: Forensic Science & the Politics of Identification from a Global Perspective.” Cartography of Forced Disappearance in Colombia, Paco Gómez Nadal, Ed. Heinrich Böll Stiftung. [Spanish] Published in Colombia and Germany. Brings together Human Rights reports, critical geography mapping projects, and texts about forced disappearance in Colombia. Contribution introduces Spanish exhumation projects and describes the historical memory movement’s uptake of Latin American visualization strategies in order to provide a transnational comparative perspective on mass grave exhumations. 2017 “Bones, Documents, & DNA: Cultural Property at the Margins of the Law.” Cultural Property (Companion Series), Jane Anderson & Haidy Geismar, Eds. Routledge Press. 2016 “Corresponding from Exile. The Social Lives of Family Photographs of Exiles from Ciudad Real” (with Jorge Moreno Andrés). Past Political Violence: Memory, Discourse and Performance, Anexo Editorial. [Spanish] 3 Co-authored chapter analyzing the social lives of photographs kept by families who experienced exile during the Franco regime. Book, published by Spanish academic publisher, showcases on memory, visuality and performance in contemporary Spain. 2013 “The Evidentiary Regimes of Science & Sight: Forensic Science and the Exhumation of the Past.” Human Rights/Copy Rights: Visual Archives in the Age of Declassification. Cristián Gómez-Moya, Ed. Santiago, University of Chile Press. [Spanish & English] Contribution to catalogue for the exhibition of the same name that was hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile. The text analyzes the circulation of images of Salvador Allende’s exhumation in order to consider the evidentiary regimes produced when mass grave exhumations are made public. Installation, Exhibition, and Book Reviews 2018 Review of La muerte del Verdugo: Reflexiones interdisciplinares sobre el cadáver de los criminales de masa, edited by Sévane Garibian (Buenos Aires: Mino y Davila Editores, 2016). Europe Now. [Book in Spanish; Review in English] 2010 Review of “The Mexican Suitcase” (with Haidy Geismar), exhibited at the International Center of Photography (New York, USA). Material World Blog. Review of Visual Citizenship: Belonging Through the Lens of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, exhibit and lecture series at NYU (New York, USA). Material World Blog. COMPETITIVE FUNDING FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS 2021 – 2022 Principal Investigator, “Militant Imaginaries, Colonial Memories: The Material and Visual Traces of Revolution