Sandra Mooser is a social anthropologist specialised in issues of media, migration and representation. She studied Social Anthropology and History at the University of Bern, where she also completed her PhD in Media Anthropology in 2021.
Her PhD thesis "Look, This Is Us!" is based on four years of field research for which she collaborated with a group of African migrants in Switzerland to jointly produce the Nollywood-inspired feature film PARADISE IN MY MIND. Find more information about the project here.
Research Fields:
- Media Anthropology
- Performance Ethnography
- Shared Anthropology
- Transnational Media Practices
- Migrant Filmmaking
- Nollywood in the Diaspora