A sociocultural anthropologist, currently a Professor (Vertretungsprofessur) at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he also co-directs the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology. In collaborative projects at the Stadtlabor, the Ethnography Lab at the University of Toronto, as well as the Digital Curatorial Collective of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, he is engaged in identifying and exploring the affordances of more-than-textual modes of research, including the ways that research artefacts can be activated as part of interventions in the world.
Most of his empirical research has been done in Bosnia and Herzegovina with thematic focuses on international intervention, post-socialism, political activism and labor struggles. Many of these themes come together in an experimental, collaborative graphic ethnography entitled Reclaiming Dita.
Andrew is interested in how multimodality can identify unrealized affordances as well as activate latent potentials of ethnographic research – potentials for collaboration, communication, knowledge production, and intervention.