Cydney Seigerman is currently a PhD student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology at the University of Georgia (UGA). Her research and performance work interrogate traditional categories of knowledge. For her dissertation, Cydney is exploring the lived experience of water insecurity in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Before pursuing her doctoral studies in anthropology, Cydney studied chemistry and Spanish language at the University of Michigan, graduating from the Residential College and Honors College in 2013. She then relocated to Madrid, Spain, where she served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, studied acting at the theater school La Lavandería, and ran competitively as a member of the Arròs Running team. At UGA, Cydney continues to pursue theater and running as part of research and praxis.
Alden DiCamillo
Alden DiCamillo is an MFA student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art whose research stems from a queer artist lens that asks questions about (re)imagining the un-historied and how visual/sensory media practices fit with anthropology at the intersection of policy-making. Personally, their work manifests in a multi-media studio practice that seeks to develop an understanding of (third)spaces that enter between and outside of binary notions of narrative, history, philosophy, and identity-building.