Dr Heather Horst

Position

VC's Senior Research Fellow

School /
Work Unit

Media and Communication

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 3988

heather.horst@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 9
Level: 4
Room: 39

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

 

Heather Horst

Key activities

I am a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (2011-2015) and the Co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

Personal Website: heatherhorst.org

Digital Ethnography Research Centre: www.digital-ethnography.net

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy 2004
Social Anthropology (Material Culture Emphasis), University of London, UK

Master of Arts 1998
Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Bachelor of Arts 1996
Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Industry experience

Current memberships

  • Editorial Board, Mobile Media and Communication
  • Editorial Board, Information Technologies and International Development
  • Chief Editor, Material World Blog
  • Editorial Board and Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Legal Anthropology

Previous positions

  • Associate Project Scientist, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, USA
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK.

Organisational associations

  • American Anthropological Association
  • European Association of Social Anthropologists
  • Media Anthropology Network

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