Anthropology

Creighton Burns

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

Biography

Creighton Burns is a third year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Creighton’s visual and ethnographic work engages with ecologies of US militarism across Micronesia, with emphasis on the Mariana Islands. Creighton is particularly interested in questions around (in)security, affect, temporality, and surrealism. 

Previous Degrees

  • BA Anthropology, Purdue University, 2023