Bio:
Brent Luvaas is a visual and socio-cultural anthropologist interested in digital technologies and their impacts on creative practice and everyday urban experience. He is the author of Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging (Bloomsbury 2016) and DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture (Berg 2012), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. Visit his personal website and see his visual work at brentluvaas.com.