Check out the CESI/JEDI lecture series event on April 13th, 1:30pm – 2:20pm PT on Zoom. The lecture is entitled“An Anthropology of Homelessness, Unsettlement and Colonization in Seattle”

This lecture reviews the most current reported state of homelessness in the US, particularly focused on the Pacific Northwest and Seattle. There will then be a discussion about some of the connections between colonization, unsettlement, homelessness and political representation. The conversation ends with a visible, but often unwritten, account of vehicle residency in Seattle that shows how social forces of home-lessness, un-settlement and re-colonization intersect in Seattle’s public parking.

Dr. Graham J. Pruss received his PhD from the University of Washington Department of Anthropology in 2019 as a US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In the fall of 2020, Dr. Pruss joined the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California San Francisco’s Center for Vulnerable Populations as a Postdoctoral Scholar. His research has focused on the intersecting social constructions of homelessness, vehicle residency, political representation, policy, health and social service care.