Cassandra Hartblay
University of California, San Diego Postdoctoral Scholar with the Collaboratory for Ethnographic Design (CoLED)
San Diego, CA
Cassandra Hartblay is a cultural and medical anthropologist, social theorist, and multimedia storyteller. Her work focuses on Russia and the Russian-speaking former Soviet Union. Dr. Hartblay's approach to theory is informed by global justice movements and medical anthropology especially in relation to disability, gender, and sexuality. She works especially through multimodal ethnographic processes, especially performance ethnography in the tradition of Dwight Conquergood. Recently, I WAS NEVER ALONE, a documentary play about disability in Russia, was presented as a staged workshop at the Shank Theatre at UCSD Dept of Theatre & Dance. Her article on accessibility ramps as "good" or "bad" design will appear in the February 2017 issue of American Ethnologist.
https://cassandrahartblay.com/
