timothy gitzen

I am a cultural anthropologist exploring crisis and routine through ethnography. I interrogate throughout my research agenda how and when “crisis” manifests—in language, discourse, narrative, and experience—and the ways crisis is either routinized over the longue durée of time or history, or when it encounters routine itself. Both crisis and routine are common descriptors, especially in this current time of viruses when the crisis of a global pandemic became routinized into daily living for most of us.