Jeremy Jacob Peretz is a Teaching Fellow and doctoral candidate in Culture and Performance in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is currently writing a dissertation on intersections of religious and racial politics in Guyana. Jeremy has received numerous awards and fellowships in support of his ethnographic field research, as well as for his critical and creative writing, including second place in the 2017 Ethnographic Poetry Competition hosted by the American Anthropological Association.