Season 4 Guests

Sally Pirie is a comic artist, painter, illustrator, toymaker, and all-around good time. She is also Professor of Child and Family Studies and Director and Master Artist at the Comics-Based Research Lab at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An award-winning newspaper cartoonist and an anthropologist of childhood and infancy, she received her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a graduate of Punahou School and Grinnell College. Her areas of expertise include comics-based research methods, ethnographic research and transgender childhoods. She was the 2020 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Morris and the 2021 recipient of the Grinnell College Alumni Award in recognition of her lifetime of public service. She was the 2025 Teaching Fellow at the Craigardan International Artist Residence Program and has recently been appointed as the Storywork and Knowledge Mobilization Co-Lab Lead with the groundbreaking National Science Foundation Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Science (CBIKS). She once went to New Year’s Eve fireworks dressed as an enormous blue pufferfish because life should be suffused with art and joy. You can learn about all of that and more at www.sallypirie.com