Shaka McGlotten

Shaka McGlotten is an anthropologist and artist and is currently an Associate Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts at Purchase College-SUNY. His publications include Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, the edited volumes Black Genders and Sexualities and Zombie Sexuality, as well as numerous articles and chapters. He is currently at work on two projects. Black Data brings queer of color critique to bear on debates about big data and mass surveillance. The Political Aesthetics of Drag is a multi-sited ethnography of drag in New York City, Israel/Palestine, and Berlin.