Ian Pollock is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, and often wonders how he wound up so far from his home in New York City. Ian’s path to anthropology wandered from history (at Pomona College) to art (at the Metropolitan Museum) to NGO work (at Threads of Life in Bali) to big-time development (at the World Bank in Jakarta) before leading back to the academy. His work focuses on value, exchange, and economic concepts, at least in part because aesthetics and feelings are too hard to write about.

Ian is the Executive Producer of our podcast, as well as a frequent contributor to our blog.