About Bronwyn

Bronwyn Isaacs' Ph.D. research investigated the relationship between labor, politics and media markets through an ethnographic exploration of commerical advertising production in Bangkok, Thailand. This project was funed by the Esmile Horiman Scholarship Fund from the Royal Anthropological Society and the Harvard Asia Center. The research offers important theoretical contributions regarding the place of human labor within emerging processes of media production. The lines between commercial and political  spheres are becoming increasingly blurred throughout the global media industriess. Behind the scenes however, the processes of prodution and experiences of labor are indelibly shaped by local politics of class and nationalism. The manual labor and social investments of Thai laborers have become a significant form of value, enabling new forms of profit in the rapidly expanding digital advertising indsutries.

 Bronwyn has also worked as a research assistant and officer in various locations in rural and urban Thailand and Australia for several universities including the Australian National University, Griffith University and the University of Sydney. In 2011-12 Bronwyn completed a Master of Science in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University College London supported by the Eleanor Sophia Wood Fellowship from the University of Sydney. Bronwyn's work has thus far been published across 12 journal articles and book chapters.  

Bronwyn is also an ethnographic film maker who enjoys searching for intimate and unexpected ways to explore everyday life in image and sound.