Brian Larkin

Secular Machines, Media & the Materiality of Islamic Revival

During my fellowship at the Institute I will be completing Secular Machines, Media & the Materiality of Islamic Revival and beginning a new project, The Media System of Empire: Communication & Colonial Control.

Brian Larkin teaches classes on media, urban Africa, religion and technology, and infrastructure in the department of anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria and the co-founder of the Center for Comparative Media at Columbia University.