Michael Oman-Reagan
Education:
Ph.D. Candidate, Vanier Scholar; 91亚色
M.A. Anthropology; Hunter College, CUNY
B.A. Anthropology, Religion, Thomas Hunter Honors Program; Hunter College, CUNY
Contact:
Email: omanreagan@mun.ca
Research Interests:
My main research interests include: exploration beyond our solar system; science; interstellar space; SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence); imagination, futures, and science fiction; emergent and new religions; and social movements. Geographically my research has been situated in online space, outer space, Indonesia, the United States, and Canada.
Selected Writing:
- 淲anderers column, SAPIENS:
- 淪peculative Ethnography and First Contact with Possible Futures. Paper presented for 湗Realists of a Larger Reality: Anthropological intersections with Science Fiction. 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Washington, D.C. 2 December. (2017)
- 淐onceptualizing Difference in SETI: New Anthropological Insights on Extraterrestrial Intelligence from Theory, Ontology, and Multispecies Ethnography. (accepted white-paper). SETI Institute. (2017)
- 淰isions of Human Futures in Space and SETI. (with Jason T. Wright). International Journal of Astrobiology, 2017, 112. (2017)
- 淭he Resonance of Earth, Other Worlds, and Exoplanets. (with Lisa Messeri). Anthrodendum/Savage Minds. February 23. (2017)
- 淭he Religion of the Educated Classes Revisited: New Religions, the Nonreligious, and Educational Levels. (with James R. Lewis and Sean E. Currie). Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55 (1): 91104. (2016)
- 淯nfolding the Space Between Stars: Anthropology of the Interstellar. Paper presentation for 淢aking Outer Space Intimate: Familiar Scales and Strange Sites. 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Denver, Colorado. 21 November. (2015)
- 淭he Social Lives of Plants, in Space. Astrosociological Insights 4 (2): 48. (2015)
- 淭he Dregs of the Library: Trashing the Occupy Wall Street Library. Discard Studies: Studies of waste, pollution, and externalities, August 31. Republished in Backchannels, Society for Social Studies of Science, September 7. (2015)
- 淥ccupying Cyberspace: Indonesian Cyberactivism and Occupy Wall Street. Paper presentation. For "Bridging Digital and Physical Publics: Digital Anthropologists Current Engagements with 21st Century Publics. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association; Chicago, Illinois. 22 November. (2013)
- 淥ccupying Cyberspace: Indonesian Cyberactivists and Occupy Wall Street. Critical Quarterly 54 (2): 3945. (2012)
Selected Events:
- 淗abitable Wor(l)ds. Invited participant. Blumberg Summit. Moderator Luis Campos, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. (2017)
- 淚nterstellar Anthropology and Cultural Infrastructures for a Spacefaring Species. Invited presentation. Starship Congress 2017. Monterey, California. (2017)
- Breakthrough Discuss. Invited participant. Stanford University Department of Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Breakthrough Initiatives. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. (2017)
- 淢aking Outer Space Intimate: Familiar Scales and Strange Sites. Panel organizer, chair. (with Kira Turner). 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. (2015)