Welcome.

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. I consider myself a visual ethnographer and a public scholar. 
My work sits at the intersection of identity and incarceration. 

My current project is a visual ethnography titled "In pursuit of the 'Good Man': An ethnographic examination of complex masculinities after release from prison." This project combines photo elicitation and participatory photovoice methodologies to explore the intersection of racial capitalism and normative masculinity during prison reentry. Together with research participants, using the camera as the locus of understanding, I am visually and textually charting the dominant narratives of masculinity that incarcerated men draw on, subvert, and reproduce as they prepare for and experience the economic and affective precarity of release from prison.

For more information about my academic work and community engagements, click "Is" above. For a sampling of published work, click "Writing." A brief portfolio of my photography is available if you click "Looking" with select award-winning images below.

For questions or for speaking engagements, please contact me at lrfldman@memphis.edu, or click the email icon at the top of the page.