What is CORA?
CORA, Collective Research in Anthropology, is a collaborative graduate anthropology journal that questions what counts as research and how knowledge can emerge from experimentation with form, interested in alternative ways of knowing that blur the boundaries between art and research. While taking on the traditional, peer-reviewed expectations of a journal, CORA encourages critical thinking about what a contemporary academic journal should look like. We are a platform for interventions, creative engagement, and local critique. CORA is a space for authors, students, and faculty to publish experimental and more traditional academic work, creatively engaging in collaborative learning.
CORA seeks to incorporate different forms of knowledge: through art, poetry, photography, visual media, and forms of writing work, from empirical research to book reviews and ethnographies. Grounded in anthropology, the journal expands its scope to the broader social sciences and is open to reflections beyond fixed disciplinary boundaries. We aim to engage with different forms of expression that build knowledge to break down attitudes reinforcing epistemic coloniality.
The CORA Team
CORA is a journal founded and run by McGill graduate students in the department of anthropology.
Editor-in-Chief
Cynthia Lazzaroni
She/Her
Research Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, STS, Alzheimer's Disease, Forgetting, Memory, Politics of Memory, Sound
Editor
Wahid Al Mamun
He/Him
Research Keywords: Migrant Worker Poetry, Affect, Precarity, Poetics, Citizenship and Belonging, Transnational Migration
Editor
Nicolas McGee
He/Him
Research Keywords: Intellectual Disability, Relationality and Communication, Care, Violence, Community, Type 1 Diabetes, Children, Science and Technology Studies
Editor
Bobi Steel
He/They
Research Keywords: Audiovisual Media, Environment and Community, Economics
Design
Wenrui Li
She/Her
Research Keywords; Mushroom, Multispecies Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Museum Studies
Editor
Victoria Platzer
She/Her
Research Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Women's Health, Kinship Dynamics, Knowledge Creation, Misinformation
Editor
Irène Svoronos
She/Her
Research Keywords: Human Dimensions of Conservation, Memory, Night-Sky, Extreme Weather Phenomena, Visual Anthropology, Organized Collapse of the Commons, Capitalism, Anthropology of Values, Ethics, Other-than-human Anthropology, Domestication
Editor
Karonhianoron Dallas Canady-Binette
They/Them
Research Keywords: Archaeology, Settler-colonialism, Indigenous Resistance, Mohawk History
Editor
Ari Javidi
They/She
Research Keywords: Tree Planting, Labor, Therapeutics, Self-making, Canada, Repair, Extractive Capitalism, Ecological Destruction
Editor
Jocelina de Carvalho Segato
She/Her
Research Keywords: Gossip, Rumor, Perspectivism, Multi species ethnography, Poetry, Human representation, Science-fiction, Environment, Scientific discourse, Community centered research, Mountains, Pluriverse