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Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Center for Latin American Studies
Grinter Hall 368
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
Tel: 352-273-4721 Fax: 352-392-7682
E-mail: ijusionyte@latam.ufl.edu
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Research Interests
Crime, violence, law, the legal and the illegal; journalism and media production; ethnographic study of the state and governance; space, mapping, urban planning, infrastructure; border communities.
Geographic Expertise
Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
Background
Ieva Jusionyte is Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida. In 2012 she received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University, where she wrote a dissertation on how violence affects news production in the border area between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Before coming to Brandeis on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, Jusionyte received her B.A. in international relations and political science from Vilnius University (Lithuania) and worked in the Lithuanian media as a correspondent and news editor of an online digital daily and a freelancer for the Lithuanian National Radio and print media. During her ethnographic fieldwork in northern Argentina in 2010-2011 together with Javier Rotela she produced and conducted a weekly investigative journalism television program “Proximidad” on a variety of locally important, but silenced issues, including illegal child adoptions and child trafficking. While in Argentina, Jusionyte also made a documentary film about local firefighters and joined their ranks as a volunteer. The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology awarded the First Honorable Mention for Jusionyte’s paper “Performing Journalism on the Backstage of the State: Illegal Airwaves, Versatile Cables, and the Struggle for Power in an Argentine Border Town,” which was based on her fieldwork. Drawing on her experience as a journalist and an anthropologist studying violence and the media she is currently teaching Crime and Violence in Latin America and Anthropology of the Media and the Public Sphere.