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Brian Larkin
Brian Larkin, associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology, joined the faculty of Barnard in 1998. In addition to his teaching duties for the department of anthropology, Professor Larkin is affiliated with Barnard's Africana studies programme. His research examines the ways in which media technologies shape secular and Muslim modernities in northern Nigeria. He is especially interested in the material culture of technologies and how these interact with local religious and social beliefs. He examines the imaginative worlds made available to Hausa youth by the circulation of transnational media flows—from Indian films to Islamic media—and the connections thus created within and between non-Western countries.
Professor Brian Larkin's interest in media and society was first sparked when he took courses in American studies and cultural studies as an undergraduate student at the University of Birmingham in England. His doctoral studies were in the culture and media program at New York University's anthropology department.
Professor Larkin’s research and teaching also examine ethnographic media such as film, television, and the World Wide Web.