Karen Gregory is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation, entitled “Solves all problems: The work of psychics and tarot card readers in New York City”, is an ethnographic account of the labor of alternative practitioners and is drawn from two years of work at an esoteric school in the city. Karen is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Hunter College and is also a photographer. She most recently collaborated with Patricia Clough to produce a photo essay and performance piece entitled “Playing and Praying to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome." The essay will appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal Subjectivity.
