Emily Fjaellen Thompson

Job title: 
CLAS Graduate Affiliate
Department: 
Department of Anthropology
Bio/CV: 
Emily is a third-year PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her work focuses on everyday engagements with memory-making practices in contemporary Peru, particularly in Quechua-speaking communities. She looks at how forms of ordinary art inform traumatic memory, accrue social and political meaning, and affectively contest prior narratives of reconciliation.

Publications

Emily Fjaellen Thompson
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article, 2022
Emily Fjaellen Thompson
Student Research, 2021