About
Brian Larkin is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Codirector of Columbia's Center for Comparative Media. He holds a PhD from NYU (1998) and studies media technologies through anthropological frameworks.
Research examines media infrastructures in Nigeria:
- Religious media in Islamic and Christian contexts
- Nigerian film (Nollywood) circulation
- Urban soundscapes and loudspeaker culture
- Infrastructure politics and colonial legacies
Authored Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (Duke, 2008) and co-edited Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (California, 2002). Current work explores the relationship between media forms, religious transformations, and urban experience in postcolonial contexts.
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