Alexandra Dantzer is a 2025–27 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow and cultural anthropologist specializing in insomnia and multimodal methods. Her work contributes to critical conversations in medical anthropology, temporality, and urban life. Her manuscript Awake in the World; Insomnia and the Arts of Living in Belgrade merges ethnographic theory and historical contextualization with poetic and multimodal elements demonstrating how creative forms can deepen analytic insight. She is an author of a collaborative book Glossary of Insomnia in which she explores the experience of sleeplessness through poetry, short stories and essays. She is an award-winning filmmaker, and has published extensively on insomnia, tracking technology, ethics in anthropological research and existential experiences such as stuckness.