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,

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 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) 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 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 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 . 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 , Paco Gómez Nadal, Ed. Heinrich Böll Stiftung. [Spanish] Published in Colombia and . 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 and Return in Contemporary Portugal” (MICoMe), MSCA-IF-2019-895197 Marie Sklowdowska Curie Action, Individual Fellowship Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2018-2021 Selected Member, “Decentralized Modernities: Art, Politics and Counterculture in the Transatlantic Axis During the Cold War”, Project R+D HAR2017-82755-P National R+D Funding, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation University of Barcelona

2016-2018 Selected Member, “Below Ground: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives” (Project R+D CSO2015-66104-R) National R+D Funding, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Center for Human and Social Sciences, National Spanish Research Council

2013-2015 Selected Member, “The Past Below Earth: Exhumations and Memory Politics in Contemporary Spain” (Project R+D CSO2012-32709) National R+D Funding, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Center for Human and Social Sciences, National Spanish Research Council

2012-2013 Pre-Doctoral Researcher, “SPBuild: Sustainable Peace Building” (FP7-PEOPLE- ITN-2008) Marie Sklowdowska Curie Action, Initial Training Network Fellowship Center for Human and Social Sciences, National Spanish Research Council

4 GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS

2017 George Stoney Fellowship, Flaherty Seminar “Future Remains” 2018 Wenner Gren Funding for Academic Workshop, Writing with Light 2015 – 2016 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Humanities Initiative Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, (declined) 2012 Andrew Sauter Award, New York University Annette B. Weiner Fellowship, New York University 2011 – 2012 Invited member, Forum on Forums of Seeing, New York University 2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, “Art/Science Field” (directed by Peter Galison and Caroline Jones) Tinker Foundation Summer Research Grant, CLACS – New York University 2010 Council for the Study of Media & Culture Grant, New York University 2009 – 2015 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (paused between 2012-2013) 2005 William J. Fulbright Fellowship,

INVITED UNIVERSITY LECTURES

2021 Seeing Like a Scientist: Photography, Evidence and Knowledge in the Forensic Archive Anthropology and Sociology Colloquium The Graduate Institute – Geneva,

Forensic Science in the Subjunctive Mood: Mass Grave Exhumations and Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain Department of History Texas State University – Austin, USA

2019 A Trace Not Meant to Be: Performance, Ephemerality and the Politics of Collection Department of Museum Studies – Graduate Program New York University – New York, USA

The Valley of the Fallen: The Politics of Re-membering Violence in Contemporary Spain New York University Global Programs – Madrid, Spain

2017 Memory, Image y Political Articulations in Anthropology Department of Anthropology Complutense University – Madrid, Spain

2016 Images of What Remains: Reflections on Documentary Practice and the Narration of Violence in Contemporary Spain New York University Global Programs – Madrid, Spain

Science, Memory and Visual Evidence: An Introduction to Visuality & Historical Knowledge Production in Contemporary Spain New York University Global Programs – Madrid, Spain

2015 Twenty-Thousand Histories: The Spanish Historical Memory Movement Department of Spanish & Portuguese New York University – New York, USA

Memory Politics in Spain and Southern Europe

5 Center for European and Mediterranean Studies – Graduate Program New York University – New York, USA

INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AT CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS

2021 Visual Heritage: Teaching Human Rights Across Histories of Disappearance ExESMA as UNESCO World Heritage Site: A Conversation (virtual event) Panel “Political Memory in Spain and Europe” ExESMA Human Rights Memory Site & Museum, NYUBA – Buenos Aires, Argentina (April 21, 2021)

2019 Forensic Archive: Photography, Evidence & Knowledge in 21st Century Spain Seminar “Towards a Political History of Photography: Social Movements and Photographic Practice” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Madrid, Spain

Milagros de la Torre in Conversation Seminar “Arts & Cinema in 21st-Century : Aesthetics, Politics, Platforms” ILAS, University of London – London, UK

2018 Memory Politics and Democratic Fractures Situated Voices Series Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Madrid, Spain

2014 Rethinking Digital Technologies: Photobooks, Digital Books and Access Seminar “Digital/Aural Memories” Matadero Madrid – Madrid, Spain

Becoming an Art-Document: Archives, Declassification and Human Rights Seminar “Towards a Political History of Photography: Social Movements and Photographic Practice” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA) – Barcelona, Spain

2013 Conspicuous Absence: Making Censorship Visible in the 21st Century Photo Exhibit – “Exhuming Graves, Recuperating Dignity” Halle St. Gèry – Brussels,

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

International Conferences 2020 Between Revolution and Transition: Reflections on Filmmaking and the Production of Knowledge EASA 16th Biennial Conference – virtual event

2019 Of Names and Icons: Photographic Evidence and the Narration of Gender Violence Memory Studies Association Conference – Madrid, Spain

2018 A Trace that was Never Meant to be: Performance, Ephemerality and the Representation of Political Violence in a Museum Collection International Conference “Art, Materiality and Representation” RAI and the British Museum – London, UK

Over, On, In: Forensic Vision and the Iconography of Recuperation

6 International Conference “Disturbing Bodies: Mass Violence, Mass Graves and Necropolitics” University of the Basque Country – San Sebastián, Spain

2017 Documenting Austerity, Evidencing Crisis: Spanish Photography in the Subjunctive Mood American Anthropological Association Meetings – Washington DC, USA

2016 The Death of an Amnesiac and the Dignity of the Masses: Amnesty, Austerity, & Memory at the End of the Spanish Transición Portuguese Association of Anthropology Conference University of Coimbra – Coimbra, Portugal

Made to be Seen: Forensic Science, Photographic Evidence, and the Unruly Boundaries of the Law American Anthropological Association Meetings – Minneapolis, USA

2015 Crafting Evidence: Acts of Exhumation and the Re-Fashioning of Historical Truth in Contemporary Spain American Anthropological Association Meetings – Denver, USA

2014 Digital Evidence, Visual Testimony: Forensic Science, Archival Practice and the Production of History in Post-Franco Spain International Conference “Archive/Image: New Archival Epistemes in the Digital Landscape” OSA Archives – Budapest,

2013 Documents, Paper, Photographs: Archival Traces & the Production of Memory International Conference “Thinking Memory Through Space: Materiality, Representation and Imagination” Goldsmiths, University of London – London, UK

2012 From Human Form to Anatomical Illusion: Photographing Forensics in Post- Franco Spain Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO – Paris,

Academic Seminars 2017 New Forensic Iconographies Seminar “Below Ground: Mass Grave Exhumations and Human Rights in Historical, Transnational and Comparative Perspectives” CCHS, National Spanish Research Council – Madrid, Spain

2016 To Stand Watch: Forensic Science, Political Violence and Acts of Observation Academic Workshop “The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo- Essay!”organized by Ethnographic Terminalia American Anthropological Association Meetings – Minneapolis, USA

The Death of the Amnesiac and the Dignity of the Masses: Forensic Labor in Times of Crisis Seminar “The Faces and Traces of Violence” CCHS, National Spanish Research Council – Madrid, Spain

2015 Acts of Exhumation: Forensic Evidence and the Re-Fashioning of Historical Truth Anthropology of Science Working Group Seminar

7 Department of Anthropology, New York University – New York, USA

2013 Exhuming Evidence: Forensic Science as a Technology of the Visual Seminar “Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation and Human Rights” Hemispheric Institute and CLACS, New York University – New York, USA

Participation in Symposiums & Workshops 2020 Imaginaries from an Uprising, Vital Archives and the Reconfiguration of Experience During the Pandemic Selected Participant, International Virtual Seminar Reina Sofia Museum – Madrid, Spain

2017 Archives of the Commons Selected Participant, International Seminar Reina Sofia Museum & Red Conceptualismos del Sur – Madrid, Spain

2015 Photography Expanded: Responsible Data Lab Selected Participant, Workshop Magnum Foundation/Open Society Documentary Photography Project – New York, USA

2010 Photography and Human Rights Selected Participant, Imaging Workshop Magnum Foundation and Department of Photography and Imaging, New York University – New York, USA

ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS

Conferences & Seminars 2021 Mirándonos al frente: Images, Politics, Culture in 21st-Century Iberia International Seminar (scheduled for June 2021) Institute of Contemporary History, Nova University – Lisbon, Portugal

2018 Theorizing the Photo-Essay in Anthropology Seminar and Workshop funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Department of Anthropology, University of Texas – Austin, USA

2015 Body, Science, Memory and Politics in Contemporary Exhumations International Conference CCHS, National Spanish Research Council – Madrid, Spain

2013 Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation and Human Rights Seminar and Conference Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics – New York, USA

Thinking Memory Through Space: Materiality, Representation, Imagination International Conference Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London – London, UK

2012 Science/Art Studies Seminar and Workshop Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab – Cambridge, USA

8 Conference Panels, Roundtables & Sessions 2020 New Horizons for Anthropological Authorship: Co-Creation and the Production of Knowledge in Times of Global Change Conference Panel EASA 16th Biennial Conference – virtual event

2017 Photography in Times of Crisis: Remembrance, Imagination, and the Politics of Documenting Violence Conference Panel American Anthropological Association Meetings – Washington DC, USA

Writing with Light: Reimagining the Anthropological Photo-Essay Roundtable American Anthropological Association Meetings – Washington DC, USA

Making Images, Unpacking Archives: Visual Methodologies, Memory, and the Production of Alternative Bodies of Knowledge in Contemporary Spain Conference Panel “Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and its Aftermath”, Warm Festival – Sarajevo,

2015 Science and Statecraft: 21st-Century European Bureaucracies Conference Panel American Anthropological Association Meetings – Denver, USA

2012 Pulling Back the Curtain: The Micro, Molecular and Scientific Remaking of Visibility Conference Panel Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference – Paris, France

2011 Unsettling Accounts: Photographs, Traces and Evidence Conference Panel American Anthropological Association Meetings – Montreal,

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK

2021- Fieldwork with filmmakers who participated in film collectives during the Carnation Revolution and the PREC; with individuals who “returned” from former Portuguese colonies in during 1974-1975; fieldwork at film, photography and historical archives. Fieldwork is ongoing.

2017-2018 Ethnographic museum research at the Collections Department–Reina Sofía Museum; research with the Photography, Graphic Art and Performance sections of the Department; participation in defining acquisition strategies for ephemeral conceptual art from across the Americas, particularly Argentina, Chile and Peru.

2013-2014 Dissertation fieldwork with memory activists and associations; forensic expert (physical anthropology and forensic research labs); photographers and filmmakers; historians; archivists; curators; legal experts; and the kin of those who fell victim to Francoist violence.

Summer 2011- Preliminary Pilot Study for fieldwork on historical memory movement and mass 2012 grave exhumation projects in Spain.

9 COURSES TAUGHT

Community, Society and Culture (Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology) Anthropology of Media Contemporary Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War and the Recovery of Historical Memory Immigration, Ethnicity and Nation in Contemporary Spain Political Violence, Disappearance and the Image of the Disappeared in Contemporary Argentina Cultures and Contexts: Caribbean

PROFESSIONAL & EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience 2019-2020 Director, Cultural & Educational Programming American Space Madrid, International Institute of Spain – Madrid, Spain Editorial Work (Photography) 2021- Editor, Writing with Light Magazine Anthropological Photo-Essay Magazine and Digital Platform 2011-2012 Emergency Fund Editorial Intern, Magnum Foundation – New York, USA

Editorial Boards 2017-2020 Editor, Writing with Light (peer-reviewed digital journal) In collaboration with Cultural Anthropology and Visual Anthropology Review 2011-2020 Visual Essays Editor, Anthropology Now

SERVICE

2021- Member, History & Image Committee, Nova University of Lisboa 2015 Red eSCTS, Member of Selection Committee for Annual Conference 2012-2016 Appointed Board Member, Memorias en Red (Spanish Memory Studies Association) 2010-2011 Appointed Assistant, Council on Disability, New York University 2009-2016 Member, Anthropology Graduate Student Association, New York University

Peer Review Cultural Anthropology; Visual Anthropology Review; Anthropology Now; Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies; Public Culture; Kamchatka (Spanish Journal focusing on Critical Visual Studies)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

European Association for Social Anthropologists; American Anthropological Association; Society for Visual Anthropology (AAA); Society for Cultural Anthropology (AAA); Memory Studies Association; Memorias en Red (Spanish Memory Studies Association), ALCESXXI (Spanish Film and Literature Association; Associação de Investigadores da Image em Movimento (Portuguese Moving Image Research Group)

LANGUAGES

English (native-speaker); Spanish (C2-advanced native level); Portuguese (B2-professional competence)

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