Contact Information

Mark Auslander
Department of Anthropology
Brown 216
(781) 736-2214
mausland@brandeis.edu

 See Mark Auslander's blog, "Cultural Productions"

Mailing address:
MS 006 Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110

Mark Auslander

Director, Master's Program in Cultural Production
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Mark AuslanderMark Auslander, director of the interdisciplinary master's program in cultural production. is an asistant professor of anthropology at Brandeis. He is a sociocultural anthropologist with strong interests in political and symbolic processes. His principal ethnographic research has been in Eastern Zambian Ngoni communities and among African-American families in rural Georgia (USA).

Auslander received undergraduate and graduate training in anthropology at the University of Chicago. His academic writings explore a wide range of topics, including south-central African witchfinding movements, popular contests over South African nature reserves, Zulu iconography in global contexts, the social meanings of lynching photography, popular narratives of slavery in the rural American South and African-American family reunions.

He has consulted at the Smithsonian Institution on the "African Voices" exhibition and worked on "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" (at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta). With his students and community members, he has collaboratively curated exhibitions of African and African-American art, as well as family and cultural history. Auslander's most recent exhibitions at Brandeis include "Trans/Scripts; The Art of Victor Ekpuk" and "In Memory's Grove: The Commemorative Art of Kevin Sipp and Keith Morris Washington."