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Vo, D. (2024). Screening of "An Occurrence" at Made Here Film Festival, organized by Vermont International Film Festival and Vermont PBS.


Vo, D. (2023-2025) Jury panelist for New York Capital Region PBS WMHT, TVFilm showcase


Vo, D., Telegrafi, F. (2025). Local Film Night at LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA, Sept. 11, 2025. Guest artist presentation, including screenings of recent films made in and around Western Massachusetts, and a talk-back with the audience. Co-presented with Flonia Telegrafi.


Vo, D. (2025) Panelist on The Producers: Behind the Scenes with Western Mass Movie Makers, part of the Pioneer Valley Picture Show exhibit at Deerfield Memorial Hall.


Watson, M. C. and Cornfeld, L. (2023). Donna Haraway. In J. L. Jackson (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in anthropology.


Watson, M. C. (2023). Funding values in highland Chiapas: How Harvard anthropology naturalized the Mexican state. In F. Armstrong-Fumero and B. W. Fallaw (Eds.), The transnational construction of Mayanness: Reading modern Mesoamerica through U.S. archives (pp. 99-124). Denver: University Press of Colorado.


Watson, M. C. (in press). Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land-Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas. Anthropology & Humanism.


Watson, M. C. (2020). Afterlives of affect: Science, religion, and an edgewalker's spirit. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


Edward Elling Berg *, Darrell S Kaufman, R Scott Anderson, Gregory C Wiles, Thomas V Lowell, Edaward A. D. Mitchell, Feng Sheng Hu, Alan Werner, (in press), Late-Glacial and Holocene lake level fluctuations on the Kenai Lowland, reconstructed from satellite-fen peat deposits and ice-shoved ramparts, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Quaternary, 5(23). https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/5/2/23