Alexandra Dantzer is a 2025–27 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow and a Cultural Anthropologist specializing in insomnia and multimodal methods. Her work contributes to critical conversations in medical anthropology, temporality, urban life and disability studies. Her manuscript  Insomnia as Insurgency: Time, Exhaustion, and the Politics of Rest in Belgrade merges ethnographic theory and historical contextualization with poetic and multimodal elements demonstrating how creative forms can deepen analytic insight. Parts of it were developed during the National Humanities Center’s Scholarly Writing Institute. 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. She is experienced in organizing public facing programs, particularly collaborative, multimodal workshop and film screenings and festivals.