The Gut & Bone Show ---- Tom Boellstorff

This week, join us as we talk to Tom Boellstorff , Professor of Anthropology (PhD: Stanford, 2000) at the University of California, Irvine. He is going to talk to us about his works in virtual community. He has spent some time studying as an active participant in Second Life. A virtual world you can find online. Here is a little about Tom.

 

Tom Boellstorff Professor of Anthropology (PhD: Stanford, 2000)
office: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 3322 | phone: (949) 824-9944
email: tboellst at uci dot edu
curriculum vitae | blurbs
Click here for the website for Professor Boellstorff's Spring 2010 course "Culture, Power, Cyberspace." The preliminary syllabus will be updated by March 1, 2010.

Click here for the website for Professor Boellstorff's Winter 2010 course "HIV/AIDS in a Global Context."
Professor Boellstorff is a Field Director for the 2010 Research Field “Virtual Worlds,” Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program.

Professor Boellstorff's book Coming of Age in Second Life:
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human is now available at Amazon.com, including as a Kindle book.

Professor Boellstorff is Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist. Click here to submit a manuscript.

Boellstorff is pronounced "bell-storf"; the first "o" is silent.

You can a website ----------> HERE
Second Life  -----------------> HERE
The Gut & Bone Show ----> HERE