Eliana Ritts (she/her) is an anthropologist and filmmaker working at the intersection of Indigenous media, representational politics, and ocean equity. She received her PhD in Anthropology from New York University, and her MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford. As an Ocean Nexus Postdoctoral Fellow, Eliana studies transnational Indigenous media networks with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. She is interested in how people use media to generate new forms of solidarity, collective self-representation, and political action. Her current research builds on two years of fieldwork at Taiwan Indigenous Television and represents her commitment to decolonizing research methodologies. Eliana also integrates an active media practice into her work through filmmaking, art and museum curation, and programming for the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival.

Outside of research, Eliana loves backpacking, running, and visiting unusual museums.