Kellie Cavagnaro
I am an anthropology faculty member at Wake Forest University and a 2023 dual-Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Comparative Media Analysis & Practice at Vanderbilt University. My multimedia dissertation examines the interplay of gender rights, media ecology, resource extraction and indigenous resistance in the altiplano of Peru, focused on Aymara communities along the shores of Lake Titicaca. My work contextualizes the relationship between expanding global media communications, climate change and gendered indigenous relations to the landscape.
My regions of inquiry include Andean South America (PhD) and the Mesoamerican Highlands (MA).
MA Thesis, Wake Forest University-
"Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas"
-Advisors: Dr. Jeanne Simonelli and Dr. Steven Folmar
Supervisors: Dr. Carwil Bjork-James (Doctoral Advisor, Vanderbilt University), Dr. Tom D. Dillehay (Dissertation Committee), Dr. Beth Conklin (Dissertation Committee), Dr. Katherine B. Crawford (Dissertation Committee) , Dr. Madeline Casad (Dissertation Committee), and Dr. Steve Folmar (Department Head and current supervisor, Wake Forest University)
My regions of inquiry include Andean South America (PhD) and the Mesoamerican Highlands (MA).
MA Thesis, Wake Forest University-
"Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas"
-Advisors: Dr. Jeanne Simonelli and Dr. Steven Folmar
Supervisors: Dr. Carwil Bjork-James (Doctoral Advisor, Vanderbilt University), Dr. Tom D. Dillehay (Dissertation Committee), Dr. Beth Conklin (Dissertation Committee), Dr. Katherine B. Crawford (Dissertation Committee) , Dr. Madeline Casad (Dissertation Committee), and Dr. Steve Folmar (Department Head and current supervisor, Wake Forest University)
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