Anthropology

Creighton Burns

Research Interests Human-environment relationships; War Ecologies; Forensic Ethnography; Ecological and Material Witnessing; Affective Ecologies; Architecture and Aesthetics; Mariana Islands; Guåhan

Biography

Areas of Interest

Creighton is an environmental anthropologist and documentary photographer whose work engages with war and wartime ecologies within Guåhan and across the Mariana Islands. Using forensic ethnography and counter visualities, Creighton’s work bears witness to the entanglements of war and ecologies through examination of everyday experiences and relationships, material effects, and affective resonances.

Previous Degrees

  • BA Anthropology, Purdue University, 2023