We welcome Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, who will be joining CNM for a month under the Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship! Over the course of November and December, A/P Crystal will be undertaking a series of engagements to share her research expertise with student and faculty members alike.

A/P Crystal Abidin is an internationally-renown socio-cultural anthropologist of influencer cultures, online visibility, and social media pop cultures. She has won grants from the ARC, Facebook, Handelsrådet, ICRC, and SSRC, among others, and her scholarship has been featured in the international press of 27 countries. For her public scholarship and engagement with the media and community, Crystal was named an ABC TOP 5 Humanities Fellow (2020), listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2018) and Pacific Standard 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 (2016), and awarded the ICA Pop Comm Early Career Scholar Prize (2020). She is Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow of Internet Studies at Curtin University, DECRA Fellow with the Australian Research Council, Programme Lead of Social Media Pop Cultures at the Centre for Culture and Technology, and Founder of the TikTok Cultures Research Network. Crystal has published over 60 articles and chapters on various aspects of internet cultures. Her newest book is tumblr (co-authors Tiidenberg & Hendry, 2021, Polity Press), and her sixth and forthcoming book is TikTok and Youth Cultures (2022, Emerald Publishing).