Darcy Alexandra

Dr. Darcy Alexandra serves as a Guest Lecturer in the Unit of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. Her current research project, Against a (Virtual) Wall: Surveillance and Futurity in the US Mexico Borderlands, is part of the SNSF-funded Big Data Lives project directed by Michaela Schaeuble. She specializes in co-creative audiovisual research methods, employing filmmaking, photography, and poetry to study migration and detention in the Sonoran Desert as a dynamic region for viable futures.

Her research spans Multimodal and audiovisual anthropology, Landscape ethnography, Border regimes, Politics of listening, Ethnographic poetry, and Anthropology of the Americas. She examines how arts-based ethnographic practices facilitate cross-cultural critique and communication, revealing how audience expectations shape first-person narratives in contexts of violence and migration while emphasizing de-colonial ecologies and reconciliation possibilities.

Scientific Awards:

• First-place in ethnographic poetry, American Anthropological Association's Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2018)

Dr. Alexandra's research is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She has taught extensive courses including Critical Auto-ethnography and Multimodal Practice (2024), Landscape Ethnography (2023), Ethnographic Documentary Theory, Hydro-social relations, and Indigenous Media, demonstrating her commitment to innovative ethnographic pedagogy and multimodal methodologies across diverse cultural contexts.