{"id":4,"date":"2020-05-11T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2020-05-26T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T05:23:52","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Zachary, and I am a 4th year student majoring in Anthropology currently living on the<strong> traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh peoples<\/strong>, currently known as Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>I have a broad range of<strong> academic interests<\/strong> which in the past have included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understandings of Identity and Kinship in Trans communities<\/li>\n<li>Digital Space as Ungovernable Territory<\/li>\n<li>The impacts of Volunteerism<\/li>\n<li>Traditional Ecological Knowledge<\/li>\n<li>The Role of Oral History in Canadian Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While most of my research during my undergraduate degree has been theoretical, I have experience conducting interviews and organizing data in a <strong>community based research<\/strong> context as part of a Go Global seminar to Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently,<\/strong> I am exploring the ways the film can be used in an Ethnographic context. I should have my first short film (ever) prepared by the end of June which will be part of a future blog post. I will be updating this portion of the blog regularly as a <strong>Project Log<\/strong>, which will move through my experiences with ethnographic film making<\/p>\n<p>My <strong>academic and professional aspirations<\/strong> have shifted significantly over the years. I am now focused on the ways <strong>Anthropology and Law<\/strong> intersect, and my academic goals reflect that interest. Professionally, my aim is to work in the <strong>non-profit sector<\/strong>, although in what capacity I am currently uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>For the last three years I have worked as an editor for <strong>The Ethnograph<\/strong>, which is the UBC student led anthropology journal. In my capacity as an editor I have honed many of the writing skills necessary for this Technical Writing course.<\/p>\n<p>I have benefited greatly from <strong>volunteering experiences<\/strong> I undertook overseas. Although these projects varied in their successes and failures, they gave me a great deal of insight about how to approach future research projects and helped me explore the<strong> ethical implications\u00a0<\/strong>of engaging in that kind of work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Zachary, and I am a 4th year student majoring in Anthropology currently living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tseil-Waututh peoples, currently known as Vancouver. I have a broad range of academic interests which in the past have included: Understandings of Identity and Kinship in Trans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54621,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/zdavgoldman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}