Gabrielle Berlinger

  

• Graduate student
• Indiana University, Bloomington

Born and raised in New York City, I have spent my life (academic, professional and personal) in the fields of cultural anthropology and folklore (in both university and public institutions). This has led me to Indiana University, Bloomington, where I am currently completing my Ph.D. in folklore with a minor in Jewish Studies. My dissertation is based in a working class neighborhood of south Tel Aviv where I documented Jewish ritual practice, specifically around the holiday of Sukkot. My fieldwork was incredibly rich and I am eager to think about how to present the stories, photographs, videos, and histories that I collected there in dynamic forms beyond ethnographic writing.

Vernacular architecture is also a subfield of mine and I love thinking about how to document and present local environments (physical, social, cultural, religious...) in interactive digital forms that sketch these landscapes through the lived experiences on them.