• Cierah Sargent
  • Cierah Sargent
  • PhD Candidate
  • Advisor: Omar Dewachi, Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
  • Graduate Program: Cultural Anthropology (CITE)
  • Research Interests: caregiving, social justice movements, community, visual anthropology, aging, the American South, race, welfare retrenchment, medical anthropology, subjectivity, governmentality, disability, health, and care.

I am interested in unpaid care work in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Originally from Mississippi and South Carolina, I have resided in New York City for the past 9 years, where I earned a BA in Cultural Anthropology at Hunter College. Since graduating in 2016, I have conducted fieldwork and produced an ethnographic film on eldercare on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. I continue to be interested in exploring questions around care and subjectivity through the use of audiovisual media.

External Awards:
Bigel Grant summer 2022
Society of Visual Anthropology Lemelson Fellowship, 2022