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Christian Hammons is Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ18. He works at the intersection of cultural anthropology and film, teaching courses, conducting research, and making films that use the immersive capacity of cinema to convey radical cultural difference. His courses Exploring Culture and Gender through Film and Anthropology of the Future have been taken by tens of thousands of students. His ethnographic research on indigeneity and the state in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia has been published widely. As a writer, producer, and director, he has worked in both documentary and fiction - often at the same time. His documentary feature American Refuge will preview at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival this year. His other work includes the short film Rumor, which premiered at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in 2020, the short documentary Messengers, which premiered at the IFS Los Angeles Film Festival in 2019, the short film Lemonade, which premiered at the Lone Star Film Festival in 2018, the live documentary Tripod: Mead, Bateson, Bali, and participatory media projects on the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Chris received his PhD in anthropology and his MFA in film production from the University of Southern California, and yes, he is the proud father of Sophia Hammons, who switched bodies with Jamie Lee Curtis in Freakier Friday.