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.

MA History - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (2019)

Advisor: Dr. Thomas Malaby

Robert is a Teaching Assistant for Digital Arts and Culture 113: Internet Culture and is the graduate advisor for the Digital Arts and Culture Student Council.