Making Sense of our Political Uncertainty
For anyone working to make sense of the uncertainty and disorientation bound up in this current global political moment, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology, edited by…
Alicia Stevens
Alicia Stevens coordinates the Heritage, Memory, and Identity Pillar of MIT’s new Global Humanities Initiative. Her research intersects heritage studies and political anthropology with a focus on the political uses of culture amid repressive regimes, from colonialism and military authoritarianism to transitioning political systems. Her monograph, Heritage, Power, and Liminality: Culture and the Crisis of Authoritarian Transitions in Myanmar (2026, forthcoming) appears in the Routledge Contemporary Liminality Series. She is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and holds a PhD and MPhil in heritage studies/archeology from the University of Cambridge, an MSc. in communications from Columbia University, and a BA in writing and Russian literature from the University of Michigan. Two decades of international museum work for the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History have taken her to 130+ countries, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.