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Robert Penner

  • Teaching Assistant Doctoral, Department of Anthropology

Education

  • MA, History, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2019)

Advisor: Dr. Thomas Malaby

Courses Taught

  • DAC 113 - Internet Culture

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of virtual worlds
  • Digital ethnography
  • Nostalgia & hauntology
  • Youth and young adult internet subcultures
  • Visual culture
  • Anthropology of the future
  • Rites of passage
  • Liminal spaces & liminoid experiences
  • Cultural hegemony & late capitalism
  • Fear, horror, & abjection
  • Media anthropology

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