Mark AuslanderMark Auslander, Ph.D. is a sociocultural and historical anthropologist, who works at the intersection of environmental transformation. ritual practice, aesthetics, kinship, and political consciousness, with particular emphasis on Africa and the Africn Diaspora. His book The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family (University of Georgia Press, 2011) re-reads American racial politics under slavery and post-slavery through structuralist approaches to mythology and kinship. His curatorial work engages with art, environmental crisis, race, gender, and memory politics. He has directed museums of science and culture at Central Washington University and Michigan State University. He is currently a research scholar in Anthropology at Brandeis University, a visiting faculty member at Mt. Holyoke College, and a research fellow at the Natural History Museum. Read More Read Less