Andrea Walsh is a visual anthropologist who specializes in 20th-century and contemporary aboriginal art and visual culture in Canada, as well as theoretical and methodological approaches to visual research. She is also an artist who works in photography and video in addition to producing social practice based works. In her development as an anthropologist, she has been inspired by the long history of anthropological studies of art and material culture, and ethnographic film and photography, as well as more recent developments in the field of visual anthropology that have embraced the strengths of interdisciplinary visual culture studies. Andrea works in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria.