Research Affiliate
Dr Stephen Putnam Hughes is the Film Officer and Film Festival Director at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London, UK. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught for decades at SOAS, University of London. His research specializes in the Anthropology of Media, with a focus on audience studies, documentary, ethnographic film, and visual anthropology.
Dr Hughes’ regional expertise lies in the study of mass media and the performing arts in Tamil-speaking South India. Over the past thirty years, he has lived and worked extensively in the region, conducting research and publishing on topics related to the social and cultural analysis of media, the arts, religion, and politics.
