Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2009 (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Sociocultural anthropology, urban politics, community activism, New York City, social class, media, the state, environmental justice.
Books and Publications
"Urban Media as Infrastructure." In The Routledge Urban Media Companion, edited by Zlatan Krajina and Deborah Stevenson. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2019
"Changing the Channel: Class Conflict, Everyday State Formation, and Television in Venezuela." Latin American Perspectives. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela. Duke University Press. 2018. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2018
"Making Violence Visible at the US/Mexico Border" (co-authored with Amahl Bishara). Visual Anthropology Review. Forthcoming review.
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
Samet, Robert and Schiller, Naomi. "Not all Populisms are Created Equal." Anthropology News. 57 (5): 3-6
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2017
2016 "A Liberalism of Fear." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, October 27, 2016. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/982-a-liberalism-of-fear
(Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
"Anthropology of Liberalism." The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed. Dominic Boyer and Ulf Hannerz, anthropology section co-editors. Reed Elsevier. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Cooper, Amy, Robert Samet and Naomi Schiller. "Protests and Polarization in Venezuela After Chávez." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, Feb. 5, http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/630-protests-and-polarization-in-venezuela-after-chavez. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
"Reckoning with Press Freedom: Community Media, Liberalism, and the Processual State in Caracas, Venezuela." American Ethnologist 40.3: 540-54. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
"'Now That the Petroleum Is Ours:' Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela." Crude Domination: The Anthropology of Oil. Eds. A. Behrends, S. Reyna and G. Schlee. New York: Berghahn Books. 190-210. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and Participatory Statemaking in the Chávez Era." Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez. Eds. D. Smilde and D. Hellinger. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 104-30. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2011
"Liberal and Bolivarian Regimes of Truth: Towards a Critically Engaged Anthropology in Caracas, Venezuela." Transforming Anthropology 19.1: 35-42. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Points of Departure for a Constructive Critique of the Bolivarian Revolution." Dialectical Anthropology 35.3: 255-60. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011
"Framing the Revolution: Circulation and Meaning of 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.'" Mass Communication and Society 12.4: 478-502. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Other Professional Activities
"Debating the Bolivarian Revolution" Interviewed by Jacobin magazine. Issue 25. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/debating-the-bolivarian-revolution
2017