Areas of expertise
Linguistic Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Language and Social Movements, Youth Discourse, Ethics and Morality, Poetics and Aesthetics
BIO
Michelle Morgenstern is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She received her Ph.D, and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia after completing a M.S.Ed in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, where she double majored in Anthropology and a self-design major titled "Inequality & Education". Before joining UVM, she was a Postdoctoral Associate of Linguistic Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked in collaboration with the MIT Anthropology Program and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Specializing in linguistic anthropology and digital anthropology, her research integrates ethnography, multi-modal discourse analysis, and a bit of computational text analysis. From the playful orthography involved of political memes to the aesthetic “vibes” of data visualizations, her work explores how epistemological and moral frameworks are brought into being through the digital mediation of information—with particular attention paid to the aesthetic and poetic features of that mediation.
Bio
Michelle Morgenstern is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She received her Ph.D, and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Virginia after completing a M.S.Ed in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, where she double majored in Anthropology and a self-design major titled "Inequality & Education". Before joining UVM, she was a Postdoctoral Associate of Linguistic Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked in collaboration with the MIT Anthropology Program and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Specializing in linguistic anthropology and digital anthropology, her research integrates ethnography, multi-modal discourse analysis, and a bit of computational text analysis. From the playful orthography involved of political memes to the aesthetic “vibes” of data visualizations, her work explores how epistemological and moral frameworks are brought into being through the digital mediation of information—with particular attention paid to the aesthetic and poetic features of that mediation.