Naomi Schiller
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Archaeology
Naomi Schiller is assistant professor of anthropology. Dr. Schiller's research and teaching focus on the media, the state, ethnographic film, social movements and politics in urban Latin America and the United States. Her forthcoming book, Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela (Duke University Press), explores how community media producers from poor neighborhoods of west Caracas used television to advance political change during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. Schiller is an ethnographic filmmaker and has worked collaboratively with media producers in Caracas to produce short films.
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Education:
Ph.D., New York University - 2009 (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Sociocultural anthropology, Venezuela, Latin America, media, the state.
Books and Publications
"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: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
"Changing the Channel: Class Conflict, Everyday State Formation, and Television in Venezuela." Latin American Perspectives. Accepted for publication. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 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: Other Article) 2015
"Reckoning with Press Freedom: Community Media, Liberalism, and the Processual State in Caracas, Venezuela." American Ethnologist 40.3: 540-54. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 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: 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: 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: Other Article) 2011
"Points of Departure for a Constructive Critique of the Bolivarian Revolution." Dialectical Anthropology 35.3: 255-60. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 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: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
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