CURRICULUM VITAE 7/15 Brian Larkin Tow Associate Professor Dept. of Anthropology Barnard College, Columbia University 3009 Broadway, NY NY 10027 212 854-5402, bl190@columbia.edu DEGREES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 1998 Ph.D. Anthropology, New York University. Uncertain Consequences. The Social and Religious Life of Media in Northern Nigeria 1987 B.A.(Hons) American Studies, Birmingham University, England. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION 1998 - Associate Professor, Barnard College. 1998 Adjunct Professor, New York University GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Wenner-Gren Senior Research Fellowship 2011 Fellowship. IKKM (International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy). Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar. June, July. 2011 Mellon Translation Grant. Barnard College. 2001-03 Pionier Fellow. Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS 2008 Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press. 2002 Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. - 2008 Translated into Chinese. Chu Liu Book Co. ARTICLES Forthcoming 2015 2014 2014 2013 The Form of Crisis. African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility. Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio eds. University of Chicago Press. Binary Islam. Media and religious movements in Nigeria. In, New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa. Rosalind Hackett and Benjamin Soares eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema. Reprinted from Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. In Empires of Vision: A Reader. Editors. Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy eds. Durham: Duke University Press. Techniques of Inattention. The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria. Anthropology Quarterly 87(4): 989-1015. Reprinted: Global Prayers: Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City. Jochen Becker, Katrin Klingan, Stephan Lanz, Kathrin Wildner eds. Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers. The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure. Annual Review of Anthropology. 42: 327-43. 1 2013 2011 2010 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2006 2006 2005 2004 2004 2004 2003 Making Equivalence Happen: Commensuration and the Grounds of Circulation. Images Without Borders. Patricia Spyer and Mary Steedly eds. PP. 237-256. Santa Fe: SAR Press. Conversation: Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information. Paul N Edwards, Lisa Gitelman, Gabrielle Hecht, Adrian Johns, Brian Larkin and Neil Safier participants. American Historical Review 116:1393-1435. Circulating Empires: Colonial Authority and the Immoral, Subversive Power of American Film. In, Globalizing American Studies. Brian Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar eds. Pp. 155-183. Chicago University Press. Islamic, Renewal, Radio and the Surface of Things. Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, Senses. Birgit Meyer ed. Palgrave. On National Allegory. Social Text 100: 164-168. Reprinted: The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology, ed. Ajay Gehlawat. New York/ London: Anthem Press, 2013. Pirate Infrastructures. In, Network/Netplay. Joseph Karaganis ed. Submitted to Duke University Press. “Media and the Political Forms of Religion”. Special Edition of Social Text 26(3). Coedited with Charles Hirschkind. Introduction to “Media and the Political Forms of Religion”. Special Edition of Social Text. 26(3): 1-9. Co-written with Charles Hirschkind. ‘Ahmed Deedat and the Form of Islamic Evangelism.’ Social Text (26(3): 101-121. "Majigi and the Political Origins of Cinema in Nigeria." Communication, Media and Popular Culture in Northern Nigeria. Ed. A. U. Adamu et al. Kano: Department of Mass Communications. 53-59. Pentecostalism, Islam and Culture. New Religious Movements in West Africa. (with Birgit Meyer). Themes in West African History. Emmanuel Akyeampong ed. Pp. 286312. Oxford: James Currey. Interview with Brian Larkin, By Anand Taneja. Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics: A Public Record. Delhi: The Sarai Programme. From Majigi to Hausa Video Films. Cinema and Society in Northern Nigeria. Hausa Home Videos: Technology, Economy, Society. Abdalla Uba Adamu ed. Pp: 46-53. Kano, Nigeria: BUK Press. Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry. Transmissions..... Patrice Petro and Tasha Oren eds. Pp. 159-170. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy. Public Culture 16(4):289-314. Reprinted in: - 2011 Trans. Zersetzte Bilder, Verzerrte Klange. Video in Nigeria und die infrastruktur der Raubkopie. Zfm 6(1): 48-65. - 2008, Readings in Modernity in Africa. Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer, Peter Pels ed. Oxford: James Currey. - 2006 Politique Africaine. Special Issue: Cosmopolis: L’Afrique dans le monde. Trans: Frederic Le Marcis. Itineraries of Indian Cinema. African Videos, Bollywood and Global Media. Multiculturalism, Transnationalism and Film. Ella Shohat and Robert Stam eds. Pp. 170-192. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Reprinted in: 2008 The Bollywood Reader. Rajinder Dudrah and Jigna Desai eds. Pp.216-228. Open 2 2002 1999 1999 1998 1997 University Press. 2007. The Anthropology of Globalization. 2nd edition. Jonathan Xavier Inda ed. Blackwell Press. Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria. In, Cahiers d’études africaines 168 XLII-4 Pp.739-762. Reprinted in: - 2005 Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema Through a Transnational Lens. Pp.284-308. Raminder Kaur and Ajay Sinha eds. Delhi: Sage India. – 2004 Social Text 22(4): 91-112. Introduction, Media Technologies and the Design for Modern Living: A Symposium. Brian Larkin ed. Special Issue, Visual Anthropology Review 14(2): 11-13 Theaters of the Profane: Cinema and Colonial Urbanization. Special Issue, Media and the Design for Modern Living. Brian Larkin ed. Visual Anthropology Review 14(2): 46-62. [PLEASE NOTE: The articles below were sometimes abridged and renamed by editors to fit the needs of the volume] Reprinted in: - 2005 Uttari Nigeria mein Cinema ki Bhautik Duniya. In, Deewan-e-Sarai 02: Shaharnama (Trans. Ravikant). Ravikant, Sanjay Sharma, Avinash Kumar eds. New Delhi: Vani Prakasahn. - 2004 Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema in Nigeria. In, City Flicks: Metropolitan Life in Modern Indian Cinema and Beyond. Preben Sepstrup ed. Pp. 183210. Delhi: Seagull Press. - 2002 Materializing Culture: Cinema and the Creation of Social Space. In, Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin eds. Pp. 319-336. Berkeley: University of California Press. Indian Flms and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities. Africa. 67(3): 406-440. Reprinted in: - 2002 The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo eds. Pp.350-378. Oxford: Blackwell Books. - 2002. Readings in Popular African Fiction. Stephanie Newell ed. Pp. 18-32. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Hausa Dramas and the Rise of Video Culture in Nigeria. Nigerian Video Film. Jonathan Haynes ed. Pp. 105-125 Jos, Nigeria: Nigerian Film Corporation Press. Reprinted in: - 2004 The Television Reader. Robert C. Allen ed. Pp. 354-366. London: Routledge. - 2000 Nigerian Video Film. Revised Ed. Jonathan Haynes ed. Pp. 209-242. Ohio: Ohio University Press. MAGAZINE ARTICLES 2007 Review of the Conference ‘Nollywood Rising’. Film International. 28 5(4): 2005 Nigerian Videos. Afro-2. 2004 Indischer Film und Kulturelle Diaspora. Schnitt. Das Filmmagazine 36:14-17. 1999 Cinema Theaters and Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. ISIM Newsletter 3. July: 13. 1997 Bollywood Comes to Nigeria. Samar Magazine. Summer/Fall. No.8: 36-38. Reprinted in: - 2003 Afro-. 1. 3 WEB PUBLICATION 2014 Everyday Static Transmission. Benjamin Tiven with Brian larkin and Tavia Nyong’o. Triple Canopy. http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/everyday_static_transmissions 2001 Video Awudjo! Popular Video Film in the African Film Festival 2001 Festival. http://www.africanfilmny.org/network/news/Rlarkin.html PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2013Board Member. Buell Center for American Architecture. Columbia University. 2013Editorial Collective Member. Africa 2005Editorial Board Member: Social Text. 2009-2014 2007-2012 2000-2010 Board Member, Society for Cultural Anthropology. American Anthropological Association. Editorial Board Member: Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Culture. Editorial Board Member: Identities. 4