Christina Verano Sornito, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist and codirector of the App State Ethnography Lab, in the Department of Anthropology at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. She writes on sorcery, auto-ethnography, ethnographic surrealism, materiality, media, and haunted landscapes in the Philippine Islands. Her book manuscript in progress, "In the House of Santa Regla: Specters of the Postcolonial Philippines," examines the convergence of cultural heritage, disaster management, colonial history, and the indigenous spirit world in the central Philippines.