Anna Bloom-Christen is SNSF postdoctoral fellow at UCLA Anthropology and the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics at Rhodes University. She situates her research at the intersection of anthropology and philosophy of perception. Her current project "Divided Attention (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/210806)" examines attentional dynamics in and around higher education classrooms.

Anna has published on the relation between intention and attention (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003162773-8/slipstream-participation-anna-bloom-christen), the revelatory power of walking (https://ugp.rug.nl/potcj/article/view/40776), and on ethnographic vignettes as storytelling (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2022.2052927). Most recently, she has co-edited a special issue on new philosophical perspectives on joint attention (https://link.springer.com/collections/gbcbiijbch). 

Anna is especially interested in amplifying the voices of first-gen students – that is, students whose parents did not attend university – and their lived experience of institutional culture. If you identify as fist-gen, and you are looking for an opportunity to share your experience – in accordance with you own anonymity preferences – contact Anna at anna.m.christen@gmail.com.

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