DPhil Student
St Antony's College
Siobhán Bohnacker is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology. Her research explores contemporary Land Art and its premodern antecedents as sites of perception, embodiment, and creative inquiry, examining how art made directly in the landscape discloses material, phenomenological, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. Her broader interests include the anthropology of art, the confluence of creativity and the natural world, ritual and pilgrimage, myth, spatial theory and liminality, and sensory and multimodal approaches to ethnography.
Previously, she was senior photography editor at The New Yorker, where she conceived and commissioned award-winning photography. Earlier, she served as photography editor at The New York Times Magazine.
As a commissioning editor, her work engaged the historical, political, social, and aesthetic practices shaping contemporary culture, including collaborations with artists such as Chris Ofili, Catherine Opie, and Malick Sidibé. She has also curated visual projects drawn from archival research in private collections and foundations, as well as institutions including the Smithsonian and the Beinecke Library. Siobhán has consulted on projects and publications for Aperture Foundation, the International Center of Photography, and the Museum of Modern Art – and has served as a guest critic and speaker at Yale School of Art, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, and Pratt Institute.
Siobhán holds an MSc with Distinction from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a BFA from Central Saint Martins.
Research Interests:
Phenomenology; landscape and perception; the anthropology of art; secular spirituality; ritual and pilgrimage; myth and liminality.
Siobhán is passionate about interdisciplinary research and welcomes ideas for collaborations.
Contact:
Email: siobhan.bohnacker@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Web: siobhanbohnacker.com
Social: @siobhanbohnacker
