[Bio c. 2013]

Thomas Ross Miller (USA) is an Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Berkeley College, director at independent Curatorial Consulting in Brooklyn, and Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. His interdisciplinary and multimedia work incorporates sound, shamanism, visual representation, museum studies, ethnomusicology, and the history of anthropology.

[Bio c. 2010]

Thomas Ross Miller is an anthropologist, media artist, curator, and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. His interests include shamanism, sound, museology, ideas of north, and the history of scientific expeditions and collections. He has taught visual anthropology at Pratt Institute, ethnomusicology at Barnard College, and museum anthropology at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate. He presently teaches on the faculties of Berkeley College and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, and has received a National Endowment for the Arts award for his anti-opera “The North Pole.” He is an independent curatorial consultant and former Senior Scientific Assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, where he was a Guest Curator for the Franz Boas centenary exhibition “Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples, 1897-1902.” Other exhibitions include “Schamanen Sibiriens” at the Linden-State Museum of Ethnology in Stuttgart, Germany and the current installation “On the Road of Bones: Ghosts of the Siberian Gulag Along the Old Kolyma Highway” at Kris Waldherr Art and Words Studio- Gallery in Brooklyn.

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