Richard Baxstrom is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and co-director of Atelier: Creative Arts and the Social Sciences Network at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (with Todd Meyers, Fordham University Press 2016) and Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Stanford University Press 2008). He is the co-editor of the journal Visual Culture in Britain.