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Pegi Vail
Adjunct Professor
Columbia University
Anthropology |
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Biography
Pegi Vail (Ph.D. New York University 2004) is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and curator. Her current academic work focuses on the political economy of tourism in the developing world, exploring the role travel stories in print and media have in shaping experience and destination perspectives. A book based on her doctoral dissertation, Right of Passage: Backpacker Subculture and the “Gentrification” of Tourism in Bolivia, is forthcoming (Duke University Press). Gringo Trails, her documentary-in-progress shot in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America, also addresses backpacker tourism. Pegi Vail’s award-winning short documentary, The Dodger’s Sym-phony, was broadcast on PBS/WNET and has screened in New York and national museums, international festivals, and on Northwest Airlines. She has curated and co-curated film exhibitions, most recently: First Nations/First Features: A World Showcase of Indigenous Film & Media (firstnationsfirstfeatures.org), presented in May 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Natural History, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M Sackler Gallery, and Canadian Embassy. She has also curated events at museums and cultural institutions through the popular urban storytelling collective, The Moth. | |
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