Spring 2015 and fall 2014 Seminars: Ph.D. candidate, anthropology
Before coming to Cornell, Emiko Stock worked as an interpreter-fixer and an anthropologist in Cambodia. She studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, and completed a masters in Khmer language and civilization (INALCO, Paris) and in anthropology (Nanterre, Paris X). Her ongoing research questions the notion of elusive identities, with a particular attention to Cham Muslims in Cambodia, using historical and visual anthropology in a multi-sited ethnography. As a Mellon Fellow, Stock wants to pursue her interest in the deconstruction of binarisms, as applied to urban life, and focus on the in-betweens. Looking at interstitial spaces defining the city through their very own absence, she proposes a visual approach (un)settled somewhere between still and motion, between what is there and what is gone, what appears and what is invisible, rendering the very elusiveness of the city itself.