Naomi Schiller

Faculty Leader

Naomi Schiller is associate professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. Naomi researches, writes, and teaches about urban politics, climate justice, visual and media anthropology, and the state in Latin America and the United States. She is author of Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela (Duke University Press 2018). Her research also appears in American Ethnologist, Dialectical Anthropology, Transforming Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, and Mass Communication and Society. Her current research focuses on community activism, social class, race, urban governance, coastal adaptation, and climate change in New York City.