{"id":1027,"date":"2014-10-08T04:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/?page_id=1027"},"modified":"2014-10-20T18:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:01:50","slug":"rachel-ward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/rachel-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Ward | PhD Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Option-1-e1412744071613.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1025 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Option 1\" src=\"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Option-1-e1412744071613.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I am a PhD student in the Making Culture Lab in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology. My research interests include visual anthropology, sensory filmmaking, community media, intangible cultural heritage, virtual museums and experimental\/digital\/interactive ethnography. My doctoral project is a web-based interactive documentary about the evolution and permutations of traditional Appalachian culture (especially in relation to contemporary &#8216;punk&#8217; lifestyles).<\/p>\n<p>My background spans a diverse range of disciplines and mediums: anthropology, filmmaking, archaeology, visual art (painting, ceramics, glass and photography) and science. I completed my Master&#8217;s degree in Social Anthropology from The London School of Economics in 2010. The following year, I completed a degree in Visual Anthropology at the Australian National University as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. For dissertation research, my fieldwork sites included a Mapuche community in Patagonia (Chile) and an Aboriginal community in remote Arnhem Land, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Following graduate school, I worked in professional documentary production (SeeThink Films) and served as the Pre-Screening Coordinator for the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York City. In 2013, I spent a summer as a Visiting Researcher at the Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.) as a continuation of my research in the Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Over the past year, I worked in remote Appalachian regions as an archaeologist and the director of a documentary short, entitled &#8220;Appalachian Punks: A Resurgence of Tradition.&#8221; Akin to my doctoral project, this film explores the renegotiation of traditional mountain music from a young, contemporary &#8216;punk&#8217; aesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a PhD student in the Making Culture Lab in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology. My research interests include visual anthropology, sensory filmmaking, community media, intangible cultural heritage, virtual museums and experimental\/digital\/interactive ethnography. My doctoral project is a web-based interactive documentary about the evolution and permutations of traditional Appalachian culture (especially in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1027\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}