Counts, Sadie
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Specialties
Collaborative Ethnography, Museum Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Native Studies, Decolonization, Visual Culture, Aesthetics
Online
Sadie Counts
PhD Candidate | Cultural Anthropology
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Preferred pronouns: she/her
Chair: Dr. Tamar Shirinian
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Sadie currently serves as the Curator of Indigenous Collections and Assistant Curator of Exhibitions for the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee.
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MA Thesis (2021)
Queer Spaces, Religious Places: Sharing Risk and Making Kin within a Queer Church Amidst a Pandemic
Professional Associations
American Anthropological Association, Association for Queer Anthropology, AAMG, SEAC
Awards and Recognitions
Outstanding Graduate/Professional Student Award, Center for Student Engagement, University of Tennessee, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
ANTH 130, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Summer 2022
Education
MA, University of Tennessee. Anthropology. 2021.
Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
BA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Global Studies. 2018.
Minor in Spanish
Minor in Anthropology
Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies
Graduated with Honors & High Distinction