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Ritwik Banerji Appointed Assistant Professor at Iowa State University

16 Aug, 2022

Ritwik Banerji Appointed Assistant Professor at Iowa State University

We're pleased to announce that alum Ritwik Banerji has been appointed an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University!

Ritwik is an experimental ethnographer and interactive media artist. His work focuses on the use of artificial intelligence as a technology of ethnographic depiction, performance, and elicitation. He is currently writing an ethnographic monograph on the relationship between freedom and knowledge in the contemporary musical practice of free improvisation based on several years of fieldwork in the SF Bay Area, Chicago, and Berlin.

You can found out more about Ritwik's work at his website: https://www.ritwikbanerji.net