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Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Dr. Livia Stone

Associate Professor
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Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 357
Office Hours
M/W 12-2
or by Appointment
Office Phone
(309) 438-5850office
phone
Email
lkstone@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Current Courses

ANT 185.002 Cultures Of The World: An Introduction To Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology

ANT 400.003 Independent Study In Anthropology

ANT 385.001 Media And Visual Anthropology

ANT 496.001 Media and Visual Anthropology

ANT 398.001 Professional Practice: Research Apprenticeship Anthropology

ANT 499.001 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

ANT 499.101 Independent Research For The Master'S Thesis Final Term

ANT 498.001 Professional Practice In Anthropology

Research Interests & Areas

My research focuses on the intersections between political activism, cultural change, and visual media. I have a particular interest in anti-capitalist, anti-government social movements in Mexico and the United States. I am the author of Atenco Lives!: Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in Mexico (2019). My work has also apeared in Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (2017), Cine político en México (2019), The Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology, Visual Anthropology Review, Cultural Anthropology, and The Taiwan Journal of Democracy. My current research projects include a historical examination of the ethico-political idea of autogestión in Mexico and a collaborative ethnographic project examining the challenges facing US heartland farmers and the contemporary cultural divide between the urban and the rural.

Ph D Socio-cultural Anthropology

Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO

MA Socio-cultural Anthropology

Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO

BA Anthropology

Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA

ISU Nominee for Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, tenured faculty

Illinois State University
2025

Civic Engagement Award

Illinois State University Center for Civic Engagement
2023

2019 Award for Outstanding Teaching Pre-Tenure

College of Arts & Sciences
2019

Outstanding University Teaching Award, Pre-Tenure Teaching Initiative

Illinois State University
2018

Grants and Contracts

Anti-Neoliberal Politics in America's Heartland
Liv Stone.
Wenner-Gren Foundation. July 1 2021 - June 30 2022
"Film Festival Management and Curation: A Hands-On Course for Creating a Local Film Festival in Bloomington-Normal"
Andrew Ventimiglia, Brent Simonds, Nathania Kurtz Rubin, Liv Stone.
College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant Program. January 2020
Agriculture and Anthropology Teaching Through Research
Maria Boerngen, Liv Stone.
Illinois State University College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary Initiative Program. July 1 2019 - June 30 2020

Book, Authored

Atenco Lives!: Filmmaking and Popular Struggle in Mexico
Liv Stone.
(2019), Vanderbilt University Press
Without Masters: Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk
Livia K Stone.
Duke University Press

Book, Chapter

Difusión de cine política como militancia: Un análisis de los documentales y sus usos políticos del Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra de San Salvador Atenco, 2001-2010
Liv Stone.
(2019), https://doi.org/10.3726/b14363, Cine y Política en México (1968-2018): Movimiento social, migración y acción viral, Peter Lang
Romper el Cerco: An Ethnography of Transnational Collaborative Film
Liv Stone.
(2017), 151-182, Adjusting the Lens: Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico, University of Pittsburgh Press

Journal Article

Popularizing Autogestión: Punk, Zapatismo and Anarchist Ethics in Mexico City
Livia Stone.
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, (2025), https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.70010
Autogestion: Correcting the History of Self-Management
Liv Stone.
Left History, 26 (2), 51-76, (2024), https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-9632.39682
Compañeros & Protagonismo: The Ethics of Anti-neoliberal Activism and the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT) of Atenco, Mexico
Liv Stone.
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 24 (3), 709-726, (2019), 10.1111/jlca.12415
Suffering Bodies and Scenes of Confrontation: The Art and Politics of Representing Structural Violence
Liv Stone.
Visual Anthropology Review, 31 (2), 177-189, (2015), 10.1111/var.12080
As Fluid as a Brick Wall: Graffiti, Power, and Street Archaeology in Oaxaca
Liv Stone, Abigail C. Stone.
Cultural Anthropology, 29 (4), (2014)
'We Made That Film; There is No Filmmaker': La Otra Campaña, Autonomy, and Citizenship in Mexico
Liv Stone.
Taiwan Journal of Democracy, 7 (2), 95-117, (2011)
Action, Organization, and Documentary Film: Beyond a Communications Model of Human Rights Videos
Liv Stone.
Visual Anthropology Review, 25 (2), 172-185, (2009)
Engaging Ethnographic Film: The Ethics of Constructing Dramatic Tension
Liv Stone.
Anthropology News, 50 (4), 11-12, (2009)