Andrew Meyer

Andrew Meyer is a PhD candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research pertains to the domestic and international repatriation of sacred objects to Indigenous communities in North America (US, Hawai'i, Canada). Through the ethnography of auctions, art fairs, art galleries and art dealers in the United States and France, he focuses on items whose sale is contested by Native American and Native Hawai'ian governments and culture bearers.

Meyer grew up on the ancestral territories of the Ohlone peoples in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area and completed his BA in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He then received his Master's in Comparative Research in Anthropology, History and Sociology (RCAHS) at the EHESS in Marseille, France. For his dissertation research, he received a doctoral contract from the Institut des Amériques to spend three years as a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Meyer has taught English in a French high school as well as anthropology at l'Université Paris 8 in Saint-Denis. He began lecturing at the AUP in Spring 2023.