Clare Sammells

@csammells.bsky.social

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Anthropologist of Food, Tourism, and Latin America (Bolivia, Argentina, Antarctica). Lover of plants AND zombies. Barbershop singer. Assoc Prof at Bucknell U but all opinions are my own.

Bananas with a Chiquita sticker reading "grows on plants." Not fake, I promise.
Rice with a face, egg/maize/mayo salad, veggie roll with bacon.
NO KINGS! in Lewisburg PA!
Tupperware with beef fried rice, made by a student for an Anthropology of Food course.
A table with several tupperwares: tomato salad, rice, fried plantains, and a spicy African tomato stew. Yum!
Woman holding sign reading "U.S. out of Venezuela".
Working on a protest sign that reads "U.S. out of Venezuela"
Rice with nori, meatballs, omelete
Store display for Maybelline-Sour Patch kids lip gloss.
Store shelves with heart-shaped candy boxes.
Woman standing next to zombie statue.
A woman in a crowded restaurant smiling at the camera, holding up a fork with food on it.
Street sign reading "Barber Shop customer parking only." New Orleans, Nov 2025
Person in an inflatable dinosaur costume with a sign reading "Don't Let Democracy Go Extinct." No Kings Rally in Lewisburg, PA, Oct 18, 2025
No Kings rally in Lewisburg, PA on Oct 18, 2025. People are crowded on all four corners of the major intersection of a small town.
Clare Sammells, Ethel Revello and their students at UNTDF
Supermarket sign announcing "Silent Hours" for austic shoppers and their families. La Anonima, Ushuaia, Argentina.
Tato Romano, Argentinian singer, with guitar in pink lights on a stage.
"Now, my dear friend-- now, for your sins, you are to suffer the infliction of a long gossiping letter. I will tell you distinctly that I am going to punish you for all your impertinences by being as tedious, as discursive, as incoherent and as unsarisfactory as possible."
People film and photo skiiers coming down a ski slope with LED torches
Sunrise in Ushuaia, Argentina.
Package of alfajor with a penguin in a pink hoodie wearing sunglasses
A photo of Mt Olivia through a window in Ushuaia, Argentina
Flyer for class at UNTDF
Colleagues in front of a welcome sign!
Obelisco of Buenos Aires from inside a van.
Lewisburg PA Peace Vigil, May 10 2025
50 people stand for democracy in Lewisburg PA, April 19 2025.
"Three types of acai bowls will be available at the Bavarian Nut Shack at Knoebels Amusement Park"
Francisco Herrera presenting
4 presenters on a stage taking questions
SLACA Presentation
Sarah Taylor opens SLACA 2025 conference
SLACA prezes in a room with jellyfish projections
Two members of SLACA at the Miraflores lock of the Panama Canal, outside Panama City.
"Prison employees asked to justify jobs," Daily Item (Sunbury PA), March 4, 2025
The bare feet of 9 people stepping on potatoes on a blue tarp.
Teen's hands making rice balls, with two completed in a bento box.
Bento box with rice balls, omelete slices, sliced pork, honey-lemon tomatoes, and edamame.
Beef being breaded for schnitzel
A troll doll with crazy hot pink hair, in a shirt that reads "Angel."
Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.
Coffee travel mug with AAUP Bucknell sticker, and a maple-bacon donut.
Blue screen showing VCR language controls in a font that evokes the 1980s.
Whole roast turkey with thyme
California Benedict
Seven SLACA Presidents in a row
View of Tampa's Kennedy Blvd bridge over the Hillsborough River