Biography

Dr. Zorn is an associate professor who specializes in cultural anthropology. She also is Associate Director of UCF’s Digital Ethnography Lab. She received a B.F.A. from the California College of the Arts, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1997. Her research focuses on how highland South American indigenous communities cope with globalization, with particular interests in ethnology, political economy, gender, tourism, art and crafts, and the representation of culture on the Internet. Dr. Zorn conducts fieldwork in the Andes, particularly in Bolivia and Peru. She co-directs the PeruVine/PeruDigital Project, which is building an interactive and immersive website to present field data from Peru’s Institute of Ethnomusicology online. She came to UCF in 1998 and teaches General Anthropology, Cultures of Latin America, Peoples of the World, Ancient Incas, and Anthropology of Tourism. Her publications include the books Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island (2004), and the Encyclopedia of Native American Artists (2008).