Sarah Kanouse

Sarah Kanouse is an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Northeastern University's College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH). Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the politics of landscape and public space, particularly examining environmental and cultural impacts of military activities, nuclear militarism, and industrial agriculture. She is known for her award-winning film Around Crab Orchard and collaborative projects like the National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service and Compass.

Education: MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her research integrates art, ecology, and social justice, addressing themes of settler commemoration, Indigenous land rights, and the Anthropocene. She has exhibited at institutions including Documenta 13 and the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, and published in Art Journal, Leonardo, and Parallax.

Her recent articles explore anti-racist and anti-colonial frameworks in the Anthropocene, spatial justice, and Indigenous land sovereignty. Collaborative projects include performative hearings on industrial agriculture and a photo-text book Re-Collecting Black Hawk. Kanouse’s work bridges artistic practice with critical theory, emphasizing embodied exploration of social ecologies.

Labs/Teams: Core member of Compass collaborative; co-founder of National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service. Advising: No formal advisees listed, though engaged in collaborative academic-artistic mentorship.