Robin Sheriff

Robin Sheriff is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire's College of Liberal Arts. Her research examines the intersection of dreaming, culture, and social identity, with focus areas including media influences on dream content, interspecies relationships in dream narratives, gender-based violence in nightmares, and racial dynamics in Brazil.

Research explores how technology, media, and social structures shape subconscious experiences across cultures, employing ethnographic and qualitative methods. Publication trends show consistent focus on dream anthropology, with recent work analyzing smartphone impacts on dreaming and true-crime media's relationship to nightmares.