Brian Larkin

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.