Francisco Martinez is an anthropologist dealing with contemporary issues of material culture through ethnographic experiments. In 2018, he was awarded with the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Currently, he works as Associate Professor at Tallinn University and convenes the Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation (EASA Network). Francisco has published two monographs: Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects (UCL Press, 2021) and Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia (UCL Press, 2018). He has edited several books including Peripheral Methodologies (Routledge, 2021), Politics of Recuperation in Post-Crisis Portugal (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough (Berghahn, 2019). He has also curated different exhibitions including 'Objects of Attention' (Estonian Museum of Applied Art & Design, 2019) and 'Life in Decline' (Estonian Mining Museum, 2021).
