Gebby Keny is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology Department at Rice University and Diluvial Houston Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, where he teaches courses on cultures and media of environmental health. His graduate work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. His dissertation research, which traces the politics of “data-driven” approaches to environmental governance and agricultural production in Lake Erie, has been supported by a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, also awarded by the NSF.

In addition to his academic work, Gebby is a research curator for the Philadelphia-based non-profit Monument Lab and has served as a Multimodal Editor and Podcast Producer for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing’s Platypus Blog. He has also worked as a cinematographer and editor for various exhibitions and film projects involving the more-than-human legacies of war and environmental catastrophe, most recently for the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Prior to starting his doctoral studies at Rice, Gebby worked as a media development coordinator for Pley.com in Santa Clara, CA and Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Fellow for the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Hurford Center for the Humanities, and Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center at Haverford College.

FILM / VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear (US, 2019, 14 mins)

Not Ok (US, 2018, 37 mins), Editor

WAKE (US, 2014, 23 mins)

Sam and Goldie (US, 2014, 13 mins)