Alessandro Duranti

Alessandro Duranti is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has conducted ethnographic research primarily in Latin America, especially Venezuela, and the United States, including among Latinx populations. His current work includes a large ethnographic study of knowledge production, care, and narratives in the COVID-19 pandemic and a book project that seeks to decolonize perspectives in linguistic and medical anthropology by focusing on health/communicative inequity and justice.