{"id":386,"date":"2022-10-05T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-international-studies\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=386"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:32:28","slug":"alix-johnson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/facultystaff\/alix-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Alix Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alix Johnson is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines technological infrastructures (like data centers, fiber-optic cables, and sonar surveillance networks) as a lens on questions of sovereignty, emerging spatial politics, and enduring formations of imperial power \u2013 especially in Iceland and the broader Arctic. Her first book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/where-cloud-is-ground\/paper\">Where Cloud is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland<\/a><\/em>, was published in 2023 as part of the Atelier Series at the University of California Press. Her research has also appeared in&nbsp;<em>American Anthropologist<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>American Ethnologist<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Surveillance &amp; Society<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>City &amp; Society<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Culture Machine<\/em>, and the&nbsp;<em>Journal of Environmental Media<\/em>, where she currently serves as Associate Editor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018<br>M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013<br>B.A. Linguistics and French, University of California, Berkeley, 2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1181,"featured_media":595,"template":"","class_list":["post-386","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/386\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/international-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}