Dominic Boyer
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Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics.
He is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University,[1] and served from 2013 to 2019 as the Founding Director of the University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).[2]
Teaching and Research[edit]
Born in Chicago in 1970, Boyer grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the south side of the city and attended the University of Chicago’s Lab School, as did his younger twin sisters. Boyer’s mother is an author of fiction and his father is John W. Boyer the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History and Dean of the College at the University of Chicago specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European political and cultural history.[3]
Boyer earned his Bachelor’s degree at Brown University in Anthropology and Literature and Society, graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. His graduate study was carried out at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. Marshall Sahlins, where he earned a PhD in cultural anthropology, with distinction, in 2000.
After completing a Collegiate Assistant Professorship in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, at the University of Chicago, Boyer served as Assistant Professor (2001-2006) and as Associate Professor (2006-2008) at Cornell University before moving to Rice University in 2009.
Boyer served as co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology from 2015 and 2018[4] and was recognized for his commitment and leadership in Open Access (OA) scholarship, including participating on the Executive Committee of the Libraria collective.[5]
Together with his partner, Cymene Howe, Boyer produced and co-hosted two hundred episodes of the environmental humanities podcast series, “Cultures of Energy.”[6]
Also with Howe, he produced and co-directed a documentary about Okjökull the first Icelandic glacier to fall victim to climate change, Not Ok: A little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world.[7]
In August 2019, Boyer and Howe organized the installation of a memorial to Okjökull, an event that was widely covered by the international news media.[8]
Also in 2019, Boyer was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin.[9]
Books[edit]
Boyer is the author of several books:
Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Understanding Media: A popular philosophy. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007.
The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Theory can be more than it used to be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition, edited with James Faubion and George E. Marcus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Energy Humanities: An Anthology, edited with Imre Szeman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
References
- ^ "Dominic Boyer". Rice University Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Director". Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "John W. Boyer". Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Cultural Anthropology (journal)". Wikipedia. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Executive Committee". Libraria. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Cultures of Energy Podcast". Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "not ok movie". not ok movie. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ France-Presse, Agence (19 August 2019). "Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows". The American Academy in Berlin. 17 March 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.