Nell Haynes is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist researching themes of gender & indigeneity in Latin America. Specifically, she is interested in the ways that notions of who counts as “authentically indigenous” become expressed through and troubled by popular culture and media. Haynes earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at American University in 2013 with a concentration in race, gender, and social justice, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in anthropology and theater. She is editor of The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology (2022), author of Social Media in Northern Chile (2016), and co-author of How the World Changed Social Media (2016). Haynes is currently working on her next book exploring how the pop culture spectacle of lucha libre—featuring women as chola characters—reflects and contributes to current debates over the nature of indigeneity in Bolivia. She also currently serves as the book review editor for the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.