Nathan Frisch

Doctoral Candidate

Specializations

Cultural Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Bolivia

Nathan entered Vanderbilt’s Ph.D. program in Anthropology in 2016. He has conducted research in Ecuador and Greece, and is engaged in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bolivia. He has an M.A. in Anthropology and in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. His master’s research at Georgia State University utilized Queer and Affect theories to explore the contradictions of Bolivian governance and development policy under Indigenous-President Evo Morales.

He currently researches the political and popular economic cultures of the majority-Indigenous city of El Alto, theorizing residents’ varied engagements with Bolivian modernity. Additionally, Nathan works as an NSF-funded historical and archival researcher for the “Ultimate Consequences” quantitative and qualitative database of lethal political conflict during Bolivia’s democratic era (PI: Dr. Carwil Bjork-James).

His work has also been funded through grants from Vanderbilt’s Russel G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute, Center for Latin American Studies, and College of Arts and Science.