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Brian Larkin

Professor of Anthropology

Columbia University

Affiliations

Barnard College

Africana Studies

Anthropology

GSA Social Sciences

GSA Anthropology (ANTH)

MS_ACAD-Morningside Academic

GSA Grad School of Arts & Sci

SOA School of the Arts

GSA Grad School of Arts & Sci

GSA Social Sciences

SOA Instruction

SOA Film

SOA Theatre

SOA Visual Arts

SOA Writing

SOA School of the Arts

SOA Instruction

Brian Larkin is currently serving as an Africana Studies Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

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Brian Larkin

Columbia University

Professor of Anthropology

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media studies cinema film studies anthropology cultural studies african studies film criticism sociology of religion african diaspora political science public policy communication political communication cultural anthropology african identity social anthropology mass communication political ecology ethnography poetics geopolitics african political economy political geography political studies anthropological theory spatial politics piracy protection religious pluralism visual communication african economy communication security migration studies southern african studies urban studies urban politics information propagation information diffusion information flow form finding black experience afrocentricity video transmission biopolitics urban life film theory political systems political culture political competition political theory islamic studies south asian culture decoloniality image restoration noise reduction documental cinema public governance public sphere government communication digital culture visual design islamic evangelism historical perspectives promising forms la musique bandiri rethinking african film nigerian video urban experience bandiri music ousmane gueye sufi arts urban senegal roberts mary nooter roberts cultural difference african appropriations sudhir mahadevan national allegory global medium medium culture international communication medium communication culture journalism

Notable Scholarly Works

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Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. (2025)

computational imagingimage restorationsounddigital image processingnoisenoise reduction

PolíTicas E PoéTicas Da Infraestrutura. Revista AntHropológicas (2021)

Brian Larkin

political geographypolitical systemspolitical ecologypolitical sciencepolitical culturespatial politicspolitical studiessociologypolitical historypolitical psychologypolitical competitionpolitical sociologypoeticspolitical theoryanthropologypolitical behaviorpolitical communicationpolitical analysis

Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry. Rutgers University Press eBooks (2020)

technologydigital mediumspiracy protectionmedia studies

The Grounds of Circulation: Rethinking African Film and Media. Politique africaine (2019)

Brian Larkin

rethinking african filmblack experienceafrican political economycinemaafrican identityafrican economyfilm studiesfilm criticismafrocentricityafrican american studiesfilmculturecultural studiesafrican diasporaafrican studiesvisual culturemedia studies

Promising Forms. Duke University Press eBooks (2018)

Brian Larkin

promising formsform findingsocial sciences

Special Themes in Volume 47. Annual Review of Anthropology (2018)

Brian LarkinAndré BéteilleAlexandra HartnettShannon Lee DawdyEric Smith

cultural anthropologyanthropologyspecial themes

Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria *. Routledge eBooks (2017)

Brian Larkin

musicafrican political economyurban lifeethnomusicologyglobal studiesafrican identityurban experiencesouthern african studiesbandiri musicafrican american studiesurban studiescultureafrican studiescultural studies

Three / the Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization. University of Chicago Press eBooks (2017)

Brian Larkin

crisis managementmodernitypublic policy

African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. Matthias Krings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 311 Pp.. American Ethnologist (2016)

BRIAN LARKIN

cultural differenceethnographyafrican identityafrican appropriationsanthropologyafrican american studiesafrican diasporaculturemedia studiescultural studies

Book Review: Sudhir Mahadevan, a Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India. BioScope South Asian Screen Studies (2016)

Brian Larkin

cinemasouth asian culturesudhir mahadevanfilm

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Brian Larkin

Professor of Anthropology

Columbia University

Affiliations

Barnard College

Africana Studies

Anthropology

GSA Social Sciences

GSA Anthropology (ANTH)

MS_ACAD-Morningside Academic

GSA Grad School of Arts & Sci

SOA School of the Arts

GSA Grad School of Arts & Sci

GSA Social Sciences

SOA Instruction

SOA Film

SOA Theatre

SOA Visual Arts

SOA Writing

SOA School of the Arts

SOA Instruction

Brian Larkin is currently serving as an Africana Studies Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

Honors

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Brian Larkin

Columbia University

Professor of Anthropology

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. (2025)

computational imagingimage restorationsounddigital image processingnoisenoise reduction

PolíTicas E PoéTicas Da Infraestrutura. Revista AntHropológicas (2021)

Brian Larkin

Piracy, Infrastructure, and the Rise of a Nigerian Video Industry. Rutgers University Press eBooks (2020)

technologydigital mediumspiracy protectionmedia studies

The Grounds of Circulation: Rethinking African Film and Media. Politique africaine (2019)

Brian Larkin

Promising Forms. Duke University Press eBooks (2018)

Brian Larkin

promising formsform findingsocial sciences

Special Themes in Volume 47. Annual Review of Anthropology (2018)

Brian LarkinAndré BéteilleAlexandra HartnettShannon Lee DawdyEric Smith

cultural anthropologyanthropologyspecial themes

Bandiri Music, Globalization and Urban Experience in Nigeria *. Routledge eBooks (2017)

Brian Larkin

Three / the Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization. University of Chicago Press eBooks (2017)

Brian Larkin

crisis managementmodernitypublic policy

African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. Matthias Krings. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. 311 Pp.. American Ethnologist (2016)

BRIAN LARKIN

cultural differenceethnographyafrican identityafrican appropriationsanthropologyafrican american studiesafrican diasporaculturemedia studiescultural studies

Book Review: Sudhir Mahadevan, a Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India. BioScope South Asian Screen Studies (2016)

Brian Larkin

cinemasouth asian culturesudhir mahadevanfilm

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