Dominic Boyer
{{Short description|American anthropologist, writer and filmmaker}}
Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics. He is the son of historian John W. Boyer.
He is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University,{{cite web |title=Dominic Boyer |url=https://anthropology.rice.edu/dominic-boyer |website=Rice University Department of Anthropology |accessdate=28 April 2020 |archive-date=14 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914155620/https://anthropology.rice.edu/dominic-boyer |url-status=dead }} where he served from 2013 to 2019 as the Founding Director of its Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS).{{cite web |title=Director |url=http://culturesofenergy.com/about/director/ |website=Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice |date=6 August 2013 |accessdate=28 April 2020}}
Teaching and research
Boyer served as co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology from 2015 and 2018 and was recognized for his commitment and leadership in Open Access (OA) scholarship, including participating on the Executive Committee of the Libraria collective.{{cite web |title=Executive Committee |url=http://libraria.cc/team/executive-committee |website=Libraria |date=29 January 2020 |accessdate=28 April 2020}} Together with his partner, Cymene Howe, Boyer produced and co-hosted two hundred episodes of the environmental humanities podcast series, "Cultures of Energy."{{cite web |title=Cultures of Energy Podcast |url=http://culturesofenergy.com/podcast/ |website=Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences @ Rice |date=16 January 2018 |accessdate=28 April 2020}} Also with Howe, he produced and co-directed a documentary about Okjökull the first Icelandic glacier to fall victim to climate change, Not Ok: A little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world.{{cite web |title=not ok movie |url=https://www.notokmovie.com/ |website=not ok movie |accessdate=28 April 2020}} In August 2019, Boyer and Howe organized the installation of a memorial to Okjökull, an event that was widely covered by the international news media.{{cite news |title=Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/iceland-holds-funeral-for-first-glacier-lost-to-climate-change |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 August 2019 |accessdate=28 April 2020|agency=Agence France-Presse }}
in 2019, Boyer was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin.{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2019-20 Class of Berlin Prize Fellows |url=https://www.americanacademy.de/announcing-the-2019-20-class-of-berlin-prize-fellows/ |website=The American Academy in Berlin |date=17 March 2019 |accessdate=28 April 2020}}
Bibliography
- 2005. Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the Dialectic in Modern German Culture (University of Chicago Press){{Cite web |title=Dominic Boyer {{!}} Faculty {{!}} The People of Rice {{!}} Rice University |url=https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/dominic-boyer |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=profiles.rice.edu}}
- 2007. Understanding Media: A popular philosophy (Prickly Paradigm Press)
- 2013. The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era (Cornell University Press)
- 2015. Theory Can Be More than it Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition (Cornell University Press, edited with James Faubion and George E. Marcus){{Cite web |title=Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be by Dominic Boyer {{!}} Paperback |url=https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501700088/theory-can-be-more-than-it-used-to-be/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501700088/theory-can-be-more-than-it-used-to-be/ |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=Cornell University Press |language=en-US}}
- 2017. Energy Humanities: An Anthology, edited with Imre Szeman (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- 2019. Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press)
- 2021. Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities Press, with Timothy Morton){{Cite book |last=Boyer |first=Dominic |url=http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/ |title=hyposubjects: on becoming human |last2=Morton |first2=Timothy |date=2021 |publisher=Open Humanites Press |isbn=978-1-78542-096-2 |language=EN}}
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