Hènna Zàmùṛd Butt

Dr Hènna Zàmùṛd Butt is a scholar-artist interested in technology, craft, and power, with a practice spanning ethnography, sound, and ceramics. She is Assistant Professor of Communication & Culture at Columbia College Chicago.

Hènna Zàmùṛd Butt is a scholar-artist and Assistant Professor of Communication & Culture at Columbia College Chicago. Her research-creation, developed through Technē Studio, explores feminist and decolonizing approaches to craft and technology. The studio’s projects include Mehfil, a traveling server-as-gallery based in Chicago, and Bodies of Knowledge, which examines the ethnographer’s body as a technology of knowledge-making. Her work engages internet governance, community networking, knowledge politics, digital craft, and DJ culture. With Marianne Franklin, she is co-editor of Internet Decolonized (OUP, 2026).

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