ProfessorHeather Horst

Heather A. Horst is Professor of Design Anthropology at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Anthropology at University College London and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.

A sociocultural anthropologist by training, she researches material culture, mobility, and the mediation of social relations, through the study of homes, clothing, and technology. Her publications include The Cell Phone; Digital Anthropology; Digital Ethnography; The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones; Digital Media Practices in Households and Decentring Automated Decision-Making. She is also the Executive Producer of documentary films "Smartphones and Parenting: Fijian Perspectives" with Robert J. Foster, Romitesh Kant, Eliki Drugunalevu and the University of the South Pacific, "Mobail Goroka" on mobile phone infrastructures in Papua New Guinea with Robert J. Foster, Verena Thomas, Jackie Kauli and the University of Goroka, and a forthcoming film on the Fijian fashion industry with Rako Pasefika.