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Jason Pine is an American writer and professor of Anthropology and Media Studies at the State University of New York at Purchase. Pine's work follows two lines of inquiry: embodied ecologies. and the struggle for personal sovereignty in the face of dispossession.

Education
Pine holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Anthropology and Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Academic career
Pine has been teaching at SUNY Purchase since 2007, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Media Studies. He has also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.

Fellowships, grants and awards
Pine has been recognized with several awards, including honorable mentions for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing and the Gregory Bateson Book Prize for The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition, and the Premio Sila: Sguardo da Lontano for the Italian translation of The Art of Making Do in Naples. He was a Berlin Prize Fellow at The American Academy in Berlin and a fellow at the Science History Institute.

Publications
Pine is the author of The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition and The Art of Making Do in Naples, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. The Alchemy of Meth was published in audiobook format by Blackstone Publishing, narrated by Pine, in 2020. The Art of Making Do in Naples was translated into Italian in 2015 as ''Napoli sotto traccia. Musica neomelodica e marginalità sociale'' (Donzelli Editori 2015). Pine has also written numerous refereed essays and book chapters on related topics.

Art installations and performance lectures
Pine has presented art installations and given performance lectures at various venues, including the American Academy in Berlin, the Multispecies Salon of the American Anthropological Association, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Teaching
Pine has taught courses at SUNY Purchase and The New School on topics such as Alternative Economies, Material Cultures, Ethnographic Film, and Environmental Media.