Angie Heo                  Visiting Assistant Professor

Visiting Assistant Professor


Telephone: (212)-854-2236        Email: aheo@barnard.edu

How are images mediated? How do people use them and what are the social, political, and religious consequences of such use? What is the relationship between how images represent and how they move? How do they shape and create ways of invoking the past and imagining future possibilities? These are a sample of the questions that have animated my fieldwork among Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt. For the past 5-6 years, I have been following saintly images and practices of saintly intercession in order to launch and investigate questions regarding the nature of religious authority and mediation in the modern world. My research and teaching interests include the following: religion and modernity, media technologies and mediation, mobility and movement, images and material imaginaries, bodily perception and the sensory, political theologies. In 2008-09, I will be teaching The Interpretation of Culture (fall and spring) Anthropology of Religion and Society (fall); and Ethnographies of the Middle East (spring).

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