Dr. Jamie K. Johnson
While human settlement spans the globe, nearly 5 billion people currently inhabit urban areas. Through higher education and first-hand experience, my lifelong fascination with the built environment has taken shape as a formal and focused desire to research and resolve the cultural, material and environmental conundrums of urban life. As a cultural anthropologist with a multidisciplinary perspective, my goal has always been to impart a critical, multi-faceted understanding of "human arrangements" by investigating how the places people call home engender and reflect our personal and social entanglements. As an engaged educator, I channel my enthusiasm for experiential learning by designing class-based research projects which utilize flexible and creative methods and analysis to connect the intimate spaces of daily life to the institutions and infrastructure that bind them together.
While human settlement spans the globe, nearly 5 billion people currently inhabit urban areas. Through higher education and first-hand experience, my lifelong fascination with the built environment has taken shape as a formal and focused desire to research and resolve the cultural, material and environmental conundrums of urban life. As a cultural anthropologist with a multidisciplinary perspective, my goal has always been to impart a critical, multi-faceted understanding of "human arrangements" by investigating how the places people call home engender and reflect our personal and social entanglements. As an engaged educator, I channel my enthusiasm for experiential learning by designing class-based research projects which utilize flexible and creative methods and analysis to connect the intimate spaces of daily life to the institutions and infrastructure that bind them together.