Ilana Gershon

Ilana Gershon is an anthropologist and associate professor of communication and culture at Indiana University. She is the author of No Family Is an Island, a book about Samoans in diaspora, and The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media.

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The Samoan Roots of the Manti Te'o Hoax

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