Brent Luvaas

Brent Luvaas is a visual and sociocultural anthropologist interested in digital technolo_x0002_gies and their impact on creative practice and everyday urban experience. He is the author of Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blog_x0002_ging (Bloomsbury, 2016) and DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture (Berg, 2012), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation...See more

Brent Luvaas is a visual and sociocultural anthropologist interested in digital technolo_x0002_gies and their impact on creative practice and everyday urban experience. He is the author of Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blog_x0002_ging (Bloomsbury, 2016) and DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Culture (Berg, 2012), and co-editor of The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader. He has received several prominent fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, the University of California Pacific Rim Research Program Grant, and the American Institute for Indonesian Studies Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship, and has published in journals including Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Fashion Theory, and Visual Anthropology Review. Brent received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University. See less