Person

Meg McLagan

Meg McLagan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University where she teaches in the Program in Culture and Media.

She is currently developing a project on the relationship between globalization, media, and the emergence of new political formations, focusing in particular on the international human rights movement. She has published several articles and is finishing a manuscript on the transnational Tibet Movement based on fieldwork conducted in New York City, Switzerland, and India. She is currently developing a project on the relationship between globalization, media, and the emergence of new political formations, focusing in particular on the international human rights movement. Before earning her doctorate in anthropology, she was trained as a filmmaker and has worked on a range of independent documentary film and video projects in New York City since 1985, most notably Paris is Burning (dir. Jennie Livingston). Her academic research has been funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Wenner Gren Foundation. In addition, she was a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of American Research (1995-96), a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Barnard College (1996-98), and a fellow at the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard University (1998-99). She is currently on sabbatical in Amsterdam where she is a visiting professor in the framework of the PIONIER research programme at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and an affiliated fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies.