Dr. Richard Chalfen is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously, he was appointed the William Valentine Cole Visiting Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at Wheaton College in Norton, MA., earned an appointment as a Teaching Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple, and served as Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies and American Studies also at Temple.

He is best known for his cross-cultural work in indigenous media, specifically for developing the field of Home Media Studies, integrating interests in visual culture, personal communication, and cultural anthropology.

Dr. Chalfen has authored three books and 90 scholarly papers on visual anthropology and the uses and meaning of media in people’s lives. He has undertaken fieldwork with the Navajo in Arizona, African American and Anglo American teenagers in Philadelphia, Japanese American families in Los Angeles and Gallup, New Mexico. Currently he is working with Japanese families living in Tokyo, Japan and contributing to the emergence of an applied visual anthropology. He continues to lecture internationally and currently is on the summer faculty at Temple University Japan.

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