Venes Carmelo Tiñana Banquiles is a cultural anthropologist who has done fieldwork among migrants in Austria and “degree-mobile students” in Hungary, investigating the material culture of mobility and migration. He particularly focused on the material culture of migrant homes as this leads to more points of anthropological inquiry such as ‘object-agency’, space, transnational connections, modes of consumptions, gendered practices, and more-than-human relations. Following his graduate studies, he pursued language courses in Colombia through the BECA para Extranjeros program of the Instituto Colombiano de Crédito Educativo y Estudios Técnicos en el Exterior (Icetex). He is currently the Assistant Editor of Aghamtao, the Official Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc. (Anthropological Association of the Philippines). 

Some of the courses he teaches are Ecological Anthropology, Social Anthropology, and Comparative Religion. He also teaches General Education courses such as Foundations of Social Science and Exploring Gender and Sexuality.

Material Culture and New Materialism, Anthropology of Migration and Mobility, Multispecies Anthropology, Feminist Theories in Anthropology

Budapest and Borsod–Abaúj–Zemplén, Hungary; Austria

• Pereira, H., & Banquiles, V. (2024). Tornando-se Antropologues em meio a Precariedades Multifacetadas. Revista Zabelê, 5(1).
• Reseña Del Libro de Sullivan, Nikki y Middleton, Craig. 2020. Queering the Museum. Routledge. Boletin de Antropologia, Vol. 39 Núm. 68 (2024): 85-91. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.boan.v39n68a5. 
• Banquiles, V. C. (2024, February). Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (2021): By Daniel Knight. In Anthropology Book Forum (Vol. 10, No. 1). Link: KNIGHT, DANIEL, 2021, Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen, New York: Berghahn Books, 163 pp., ISBN 978-1-80073-194-3 – Anthropology Book Forum.
• Banquiles, V. C. (2023, September). Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia (2022): By Venetia Johannes. In Anthropology Book Forum (Vol. 9, No. 1). Link: JOHANNES, VENETIA, 2020, Nourishing the Nation – Food as National Identity in Catalonia,  Oxford: Berghahn Books, 278 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-438-4 – Anthropology Book Forum.