Heather A. Horst
Heather A. Horst is an Associate Project Scientist at the University of California Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. An anthropologist by training, her interests revolve around the relationship between place, personhood, gender and aspiration as they are expressed through material culture, media and migration. Alongside her dissertation research which focused upon the imagination, construction and transformation of the meanings of ‘home’ among Jamaican returnees, she conducted research in rural and urban Jamaica as part of a multi-national comparative study of development and new information and communication technologies in Ghana, India, Jamaica and South Africa funded by the British Department for International Development. Her recent research, part of the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur digital media and learning initiative, examines new media practices in the US and the Caribbean. Dr. Horst is also the Book Reviews editor for the Journal of Legal Anthropology [visit website] and is currently co-editing a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Studies focusing upon “Caribbean Media Worlds” with Anna Cristina Pertierra.
