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Lisa Stevenson

Lisa Stevenson

Lisa Stevenson is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her book Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic (University of California Press, 2014) won the 2015 Victor Turner Book Prize. Her current ethnographic film project Into Unknown Parts, which screened at the Margaret Mead Film Festival (2017) concerns the Inuit experience of being forced to leave their home communities and live for an undetermined period of time in a southern tuberculosis sanatorium. For the 2017-2018 academic year Stevenson is a Mellon New Directions Fellow, studying filmmaking in order to better use the power of film to capture the lived experience of violence.