Stephanie Sadre-Orafai is Director and Faculty Chair of the Taft Research Center and Associate Professor of Anthropology. Trained as a sociocultural and visual anthropologist, her research explores emerging forms of expertise, discourses of realness, and the intersection of race, language, and visual practices in aesthetic industries. Throughout her career Dr. Sadre-Orafai has pursued multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and collaborative projects that blend research and creative practice, resulting in public-facing video, curatorial, and experimental design work. She co-edited and co-led the redesign of Visual Anthropology Review, the journal of the Society for Visual Anthropology, from 2018–2021, and co-founded the Collective for Multimodal Makers, Publishers, Collaborators, and Teachers, another SVA initiative, in 2023.
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