Paul Kohlbry

Postdoctoral Associate

Publications

Journal Articles

"Agrarian Annihilation." Agrarian Conversations. January 12, 2024.

"Titling in the Ruins: Progress, Deferral, and Nonsovereign Property." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 43.3 (2023): 262-274.

“Introduction: Claiming Property, Claiming Palestine.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 43.3 (2023): 245-48 (with Beshara Doumani).

"Selling Rural Palestine: Land devaluation, Ethical Investment, and the Limits of Human Rights." Antipode 55.3 (2023): 897-915.

"To Cover the Land in Green: Rain-fed Agriculture and Anti-colonial Land Reclamation in Palestine." The Journal of Peasant Studies 50.7 (2023): 2666-2684.

"Palestinian Counter‐forensics and the Cruel Paradox of Property." American Ethnologist 49.3 (2022): 374-386.

"Owning the Homeland: Property, Markets, and Land Defense in the West Bank." Journal of Palestine Studies 47.4 (2018): 30-45.

 

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202 McGraw Hall
pak228@cornell.edu

Departments and programs

Keywords

  • Critical Agrarian Studies
  • Political Ecology
  • Legal Anthropology
  • Ethnography

Sarah Besky

Associate Professor and Director of the South Asia Program

Publications

Books 

2020. Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea. Oakland: University of California Press.  

2019.  How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet.  Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette, editors.  Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research (SAR) Press.  

2014.  The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India.  Berkeley: University of California Press.   

Articles 

Forthcoming (2021). “The Plantation’s Outsides: The Work of Settlement in Kalimpong, India.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 63(2). 

Forthcoming (2021). “Teawords: Experiments with Quality in Industrial Tea Production.” American Anthropologist 123(1).  

2020. “Empire and Indigestion: Materializing Tannins in the Indian Tea Industry.” Social Studies of Science 50(3): 398-417. 

2017. “Fixity: On the Inheritance and Maintenance of Tea Plantation Houses in Darjeeling, India.”  American Ethnologist 44(4): 617-631.   

2017. “The Land in Gorkhaland: On the Edges of Belonging in Darjeeling, India.” Environmental Humanities 9(1): 18-39. 

2017. “Tea as ‘Hero Crop’?  Embodied Algorithms and Industrial Reform in India.” Science as Culture.  26(1): 11-31.  

2016. “Placing Plants in Territory” (co-authored with Jonathan Padwe). Environment and Society: Advances in Research 7: 9-28.  

2016. “The Future of Price: Communicative Infrastructures and the Financialization of Indian Tea.” Cultural Anthropology 31(1): 4-29. 

2015. “Agricultural Justice, Abnormal Justice? Fair Trade’s Plantation Problem.” Antipode 47(5): 1141-1160.  

2015. “Looking for Work: Placing Labor in Food Studies” (co-authored with Sandy Brown).  Labor: Studies of Working-Class History of the Americas 12(1-2): 19-43. 

2014. “The Labor of Terroir and the Terroir of Labor: Geographical Indication on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.” Agriculture and Human Values 31(1): 83-96.  

2008. “Can a Plantation be Fair?  Paradoxes and Possibilities in Fair Trade Darjeeling Tea Certification.”  Anthropology of Work Review 29(1): 1-9. 

Book Chapters 

Forthcoming. “Seaweed.” In Solarities: Inflections and Refractions, edited by Amelia Moore, Cymene Howe, and Jeff Diamanti. Santa Barbara, CA: Punctum Books. 

2020. “Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives.” In Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment, Carole McGranahan, editor. Pp. 83-86. Durham: Duke University Press. 

2020. “Monoculture.” In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon. Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian, editors. Pp. 277-280. Santa Barbara, CA: Punctum Books.  

2019. “Introduction: The Fragility of Work” (co-authored with Alex Blanchette). In How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, Besky and Blanchette, editors. Pp. 1-22. Santa Fe: SAR Press.  

2019. “Exhaustion and Endurance in Sick Landscapes.” In How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, Besky and Blanchette, editors. Pp. 23-40. Santa Fe: SAR Press.  

2018. “Subnational Occupations: Managing Darjeeling Tea.” In Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, and Environments. Townsend Middleton and Sara Shneiderman, editors. Pp. 197-218.  New Delhi: Oxford University Press India.  

2010. “Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures: Changing Modes of Production and Regulation on Darjeeling Tea Plantations.” In Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies. Sarah Lyon and Mark Moberg, editors. Pp. 97-122.  New York: NYU Press. 

Selected Essays and Public Scholarship 

2020. “What’s in a Cuppa?” Queen’s Quarterly (Winter): 554-565        

2020. “Afterword: Work, Place, and the Value of Ethnography.” Anthropology of Work Review 41(2): 129-132. 

2020. “Tea Time for the Pandemic.” University of California Press blog, May 21. 

2018. “The Naturalization of Work” (co-edited with Alex Blanchette).  Collection for Cultural Anthropology’s website series “Theorizing the Contemporary.”   

2018. “Introduction: The Naturalization of Work.” In “The Naturalization of Work,” edited by Besky and Blanchette. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. July 26. 

2018. “Sickness” In “The Naturalization of Work,” edited by Besky and Blanchette. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. July 26. 

2017. “Monoculture.”  In “Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen,” edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. June 28. 

2017. Preface to the Chinese edition of The Darjeeling Distinction. Chapati Mystery. May 16.  

2017. “Ten Questions with Sarah Besky.” Chapati Mystery. January 27. 

2016. “The Materiality of Finance: An Interview with Sarah Besky” (with Ned Dostaler). Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology website. March 17.

2016. Response to Daniel Münster’s review of The Darjeeling Distinction on Allegra Laboratory. January 25.  

2015. “Inheriting the Hill Station.” Essay on “Edge Effects.” May 19. 

2015. “Can’t Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives.” Essay in the 

“Writer’s Workshop” Series on “Savage Minds.” March 26. 

2014. “The Promise of Fair Trade for Plantation Laborers.”  For a Better World.  Fair World Project: Portland, Oregon. Issue 9 (Fall): 15-16.  

Selected Media 

BBC Radio 4. “Thinking Allowed.” December 2, 2020. 

CaMP Anthropology Interview on “Tasting Qualities.” October 23, 2020. 

“Science for the People” Podcast. October 5, 2020.  

“The Slowdown” June 13, 2020. 

World101x: University of Queensland MOOC module, July 13, 2017. 

Al Jazeera’s “The Stream” episode on tea plantations. December 14, 2016.  

“Working Concepts.” Interview and podcast on “Edge Effects.” March 29, 2016 

“New Books in South Asia.” January 14, 2015.  

BBC Radio 4. “Thinking Allowed.” October 22, 2014. 

“The Farm Report.” Heritage Radio News. May 22, 2014. 

“It’s Hot in Here.” WCBN Ann Arbor. January 17, 2014. 

“Against the Grain.” KPFA Berkeley, CA. November 22, 2010.    

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Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2012 

Departments and programs

Links

Chloe Ahmann

Assistant Professor

Publications

Books

Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. 2024. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Edited Collections

“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–72. (Co-edited with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.)

“Vacancy.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–474. 

“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–590. (Co-edited with Alison Kenner.) 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Little Things.” 2023. Part of a peer-reviewed collection called “Hundreds for Katie.” Eduardo Hazera, ed. Anthropology and Humanism 48(2): 401.

“Fieldwork Confessionals.” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 623–8. (Co-authored with Ali Feser, Alix Johnson, Erin McFee, and Amy Leia McLachlan.)

“I know I shouldn't say this, but...” 2023. American Anthropologist 125(3): 633–7. 

“Uncertainty in Motion: Rumors of a Proxy War in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2023. Cultural Anthropology 38(3): 303–33.

“Vacancy: An Introduction.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 241–76. 

“Postindustrial Futures and the Edge of the Frontier.” 2022. Anthropological Quarterly 95(2): 277–310. 

“Dissociation.” 2022. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called “The Vertiginous: Temporalities and Affects of Living in Vertigo.” Daniel M. Knight, Fran Markowitz, and Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds. Anthropological Theory Commons, June 3. 

“Atmospheric Coalitions: Shifting the Middle in Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 462–85.

“Breathing Late Industrialism.” 2020. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 6: 416–38. (Co-authored with Alison Kenner.)

“Unbelonging: The Politics of Address.” 2020. Part of a peer-reviewed forum called "Futile Political Gestures." Galina Stjepanovic, ed. Anthropological Theory Commons, October 16. 

“Waste-to-Energy: Garbage Prospects and Subjunctive Politics in Late-industrial Baltimore.” 2019. American Ethnologist 46(3): 328–42.

“‘It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing.’ Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time.” 2018. Cultural Anthropology 33(1): 142–71. 

“Accountable Talk: ‘Real’ Conversations in Baltimore City Schools.” 2017. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 48(1): 77–97. 

“‘…And That’s Why I Teach For America’: American Education Reform and the Role of Redemptive Stories.” 2016. Text & Talk 36(2): 111–31. 

“Teach For All: Storytelling ‘Shared Solutions’ and Scaling Global Reform.” 2015. Education Policy Analysis Archives 23(45): 1–27.

Book Reviews

“The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice by Melissa Checker.” 2021. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(2): 106–8. 

“Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity by Mahmood Mamdani.” 2013. Anthropological Quarterly 86(3): 927–33. 

Essays, Podcasts, and Public Scholarship

Author of “Curtis Bay Residents Deserve a Coal-free Future.” 2024. Op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, February 18.

Interviewed (by Fern Shen) for “After a Century of Industrial Accidents and Toxic Exposures, Curtis Bay Residents Say They’ve Had Enough.” 2022. Baltimore Brew, December 5. 

Author of public and written testimony on the CSX coal terminal explosion. 2022. Baltimore City Council Investigatory Hearing, June 15. (Beginning at 56:30 minutes into linked recording.)

Guest (with Rasheeda Green) on “Geographies of Privilege.” 2021. Episode of Crossroads podcast, May 19.

Interviewed (by Kate Blackwood) for “Ahmann Co-edits Journal Issue on 'Late Industrialism.’” 2020. Cornell Chronicle, November 30.

Work featured on “Let it Burn.” 2020. Episode of Crossroads podcast, June 16.

Author of “Toxic Disavowal.” 2020. Somatosphere, January 20.

Interviewed (by Alize Arıcan) for “Features.” 2019. American Ethnologist, September 20.  

Author of “America’s Post-industrial Futures.” 2018. Photo essay for Sapiens. November 28. 

Interviewed (by Alexandra Vieux Frankel) for “This Was An Event.” 2018. Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology, June 19. 

Guest (with David Giles and Elana Resnick) on “Episode 8.” 2018. Conversations in Anthropology podcast, February 11.

Author (with Vincent Ialenti) of “Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great.’” 2017. Op Ed for Sapiens. April 25.  

Author of “The Incinerator Does Not Exist: Sensory Engagement with Toxic Potentials.” 2017. Part of a series called “Sensory Engagements with a Toxic World.” Chisato Fukuda, ed. Second Spear, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, March 29. 

Author of “On Not Being Seen.” 2016. Part of a series called “Ethnographer as Advocate.” Haley Bryant and Emily Cain, eds. Anthropology News. February 17. 

Interviewed (by Diane Stopyra) for “The Great Garbage Fire Debate: Should We be Burning Our Trash into Energy?” 2017. Salon, January 2.

Author of “Curtis on the Bay: Failed Development and the Mythology of Trump.” 2016. Part of a series called “Crisis of Liberalism.” Dominic Boyer, ed. Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology. November 30.

Recent recorded talks

“Time Bomb: Two Hundred Years of Toxic Disavowal in Late Industrial South Baltimore.” 2022. Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, December 6.

“Hope at the End of the World: Two Views from Late Industrial Baltimore.” 2022. University of Delaware, Department of Anthropology, October 27.

“How Waste Became Renewable in Baltimore: A Cautionary Tale.” 2022. Cornell University, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, May 9.

 

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208 McGraw Hall
chloeahmann@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D., George Washington University, 2018

Departments and programs

Links

Keywords

Environmental anthropology, political anthropology, science and technology studies, industrialism, climate change, waste, racism, time and event, social movements, urban history, United States

 

Alex Nading

Associate Professor

Publications

Book 

2014. Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement. Oakland: University of California Press. 

Edited Journal Issues

2021. “Pollution and Toxicity.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Vol. 12 edited with Josh Fisher, Mary Mostafanezhad, and Sarah Wiebe

2020. "Medical Anthropology and Covid-19," Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 34.4, edited with Vincanne Adams

2019. “Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 33.1, edited with Hannah Brown 

Journal Articles

2023. Yates-Doerr, Emily and Alex M. Nading. “Introduction: Citational Politics in Medical Anthropology,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 37(3): 177-181.

2023. Nading, Alex M. “The Plantation as Hot Spot: Capital, Science, Labor, and the Earthly Limits of Global Health,” Medicine Anthropology Theory 10(2): 1-26.

2022. Fisher, Josh and Alex M. Nading. “Playing Ethnographically, Living Well Together: Notes from an Experiment in Collaboration,” Ethnography.

2021. Fisher, Josh and Alex Nading. “The End of the Cooperative Model (As We Knew It): Commoning and Co-Becoming in Two Nicaraguan Cooperatives,” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4(4): 1232-1254.

2021. Fisher, Josh, Mary Mostafanezhad, Alex Nading, and Sarah Wiebe. “Pollution and Toxicity: Cultivating Ecological Practices for Troubled Times.” Environment & Society: Advances in Research 12: 1-4.

2020. “Living in a Toxic World,” Annual Review of Anthropology 49: 209-224.

2019. “Ethnography in a Grievance: Documentary Mechanisms in Nicaragua’s Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic,” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2). 

2019. (with Hannah Brown) “Introduction: Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology,” in “Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology,” invited special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly 33(1): 5-23. 

2018. (with Lucy Lowe). “Social Justice as Epidemic Control: Two Latin American Case Studies,” Medical Anthropology 37(6): 458-471. 

2018. (with Josh Fisher). “Zopilotes, Alacranes, y Hormigas (Vultures, Scorpions, and Ants): Animal Metaphors as Organizational Politics in a Nicaraguan Garbage Crisis,” Antipode 50(4): 997-1015. 

2017. “Orientation and Crafted Bureaucracy: Finding Dignity in Nicaraguan Food Safety,” American Anthropologist 119(3): 478-490. 

2017. (with Abigail Neely). “Global Health from the Outside: The Promise of Place-Based Research,” Health and Place 45: 55-63. 

2017. “Local Biologies, Leaky Things, and the Chemical Infrastructure of Global Health,” Medical Anthropology 36(2): 141-156. 

2016. “Evidentiary Symbiosis: On Paraethnography in Human-Microbe Relations,” Science as Culture 25(4): 560-581. 

2015. “Chimeric Globalism: Global Health in the Shadow of the Dengue Vaccine,” American Ethnologist 42(2): 356-370. 

2015. “The Lively Ethics of Global Health GMOs: The Case of the Oxitec Mosquito,” BioSocieties 10(1): 24-47. 

2013. “Humans, Animals, and Health: From Ecology to Entanglement,” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 40(1): 60-78. 

2013. “‘Love Isn’t There in Your Stomach:’ A Moral Economy of Medical Citizenship among Nicaraguan Community Health Workers,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 27 (1): 84-102. 

2012. “‘Dengue Mosquitoes are Single Mothers:’ Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work,” Cultural Anthropology 27 (4): 572-596. 

2011. “Foundry Values: Artisanal Aluminum Recyclers, Economic Involution, and Skill in Periurban Managua” Urban Anthropology 40(3-4): 319-360. 

Chapters in Edited Volumes 

2021. “Eradication against Ambivalence,” in Mosquitopia? The Place of Pests in a Healthy World, edited by Marcus Hall and Dan Tamir. London: Routledge Press.

2019. “The Heat of Work: Dissipation, Solidarity, and Kidney Disease in Nicaragua,” in How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar, edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette. Santa Fe, NM: SAR Press. 

2019. “Heat,” In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. New York: Punctum Books, pp. 226-230. 

2018. “How to Build Rapport with Cats and Humans,” in Living with Animals: Bonds across Species, Edited by Natalie Porter and Ilana Gershon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 29-40. 

2017. “Resistance or Parasitism? Waste Scavengers and Dengue Mosquito Control in Nicaragua,” in Thinking Through Resistance: A Study of Public Oppositions to Contemporary Global Health Practice, Edited by Nicola Bulled. New York: Routledge Press, pp. 58-74. 

2015. “Ebola, Chimeras, and Unexpected Speculation.” Limn, Issue 5, “Ebola’s Ecologies,” Edited by Andrew Lakoff

Podcasts, Online Journals, and Blogs

2023. “Cosmic Conversation: The Anthropocene as Disaster and Disease,” Humanities Research Group in the Ecology of Practices, Haus de Kulturen de Welt and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science “Anthropocene Campus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWLWKshRxWM

2023. Fisher, Josh and Alex Nading “Plantation Palimpsests in Urban Nicaragua,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 24.

2022. Interview on “The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast” with Aaron Goodman, April 14

2021. Sarah Besky, Ilana Gershon, Alex Nading, Christopher Nelson, Katie Nelson, Heather Paxson, Brad Weiss, “A Statement on AAA’s Publishing Future,” published simultaneously on the SCA, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, APLA, and SAW website

2021. Nading, Alex. “Editor’s Introduction,” in “Resistance, Resilience, and the Sojourner Syndrome: A Forum in Honor of Leith Mullings,” Medical Anthropology Quarterly online, March 10

2019. (with Ann Kelly) “Life/Non-Life Revived,” in Life/Non-Life: A Forum, in Somatosphere. 

2019. “Epicrisis and ‘My Shriveled Plant Moment,’” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 25. 

2019. “Filtration,” in an online series on “Volumetric Sovereignty, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space blog 

2018. “Dams and Dialysis.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsites, July 26. 

2018. (with Josh Fisher and Chantelle Falconer). “Ethnographic Designs for Buen Vivir: Fieldnotes from Nicaragua,” Platypus, blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing 

2018. “Is There a Place for Environmental Justice in Global Health?” Edge Effects, blog of the University of Wisconsin Center for Culture, History, and Environment 

2017. “Can Microbes Give Gifts?” in a Book Forum on Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes, Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Critical Care” blog

2017. “Chemicals Sit in Places,” in Sensorial Engagements with a Toxic World, edited by Chisato Fukuda. Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Second Spear” blog

2016. “Heat,” Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology website

2016. “Zika, Hype, and Speculation,” in Forum on the Zika Virus, in Somatosphere

2014. “Bleach,” in Commonplaces, edited by Tomas Matza and Harris Solomon, in Somatosphere

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262 McGraw Hall
amn242@cornell.edu

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

MA, University of Sussex 

BA, University of Virginia

Departments and programs

Juno Salazar Parreñas

Associate Professor

Publications

Book:

Edited Books:

  • Pandemics Past and Pending. An open access eBook of student essays, co-edited with Alena Zhang, Rodrigo Guzman Serrano, Mari Kramer, and Vishal Nyayapathi. Cornell University. 2023.
  • Gender: Animals. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. 2017.

Articles and Chapters:

  • "Ethnography after Anthropology: Become Moles not Mining Corporations." 2023. American Ethnologist 50(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13201

  • "Afterward: Ecological Inqueeries." Co-authored with Nicole Seymour. 2022. Environmental Humanities 14 (3). https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9962992

  • "Pronouns for an apocalyptic future: asymmetrical terms for a new era." 2021. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 4 (1): 1989849. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.1989849

  • "Power, Care and Species Difference in Orangutan Rehabilitation in Sarawak: A Roundtable." Co-written with Alicia Izharuddin, Monamie Bhadra Haines, Faizah Zakaria, and Robert Cribb. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 94, no. 1 (2021): 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0019

  • “From Decolonial Indigenous Knowledges to Vernacular Ideas in Southeast Asia.” September 2020. History and Theory. 59(3):413-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12169

  • “Specificity.” April 2020. Indonesia. 109: 65-70. https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2020.0008

  • "An Anthropology of Primatology Exceeds the Primate Order: a feminist and queer critique." 2019 Cahiers d’anthropologie sociale (18: Primates):126-143. https://doi.org/10.3917/cas.018.0126
  • “The Job of Finding Food is a Joke: Orangutan Rehabilitation, Work, Subsistence, and Social Relations.” 2019. How Nature Works. Alex Blanchette and Sarah Besky eds. School for Advanced Research Seminar. University of New Mexico Press, pp. 79-98.
  • “Arrested: Orangutan Sexuality and the rehabilitation of wildness through captivity in Malaysia.” 2019. History and Anthropology. 30(5): 527-532. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1638773
  •  “Orangutan Rehabilitation as an Experiment of Decolonization.” 2017. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Peer-reviewed Critical Perspectives. 3(1).
  • “Engaging Decolonization and Decoloniality in Science and Technology Studies.” 2017. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Peer-reviewed Critical Perspectives. 3(1). Co-authored with Kristina Lyons and Noah Tamarkin. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v3i1.28794
  • “Introduction.” 2017. Gender: Animals. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
  •  “Hunting.” 2017. Gender: Animals. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
  • “The Materiality of Intimacy: Rethinking ‘Ethical Capitalism’ through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia.” 2016. positions: asia critique. 24(1):97-107. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3320065
  • “Producing Affect: transnational volunteerism in a Malaysian orangutan rehabilitation center.” 2012. American Ethnologist. Volume 39, Issue 4, pp. 673-687. 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01387.x

Public Scholarship:

Klarman Hall
Morrill Hall
parrenas@cornell.edu

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, Harvard University, 2012
  • MPHIL in Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, 2002
  • BA, Women’s Studies with Highest Honors, UC Santa Cruz, 2001

 

Departments and programs

Nerissa Russell

Professor

Publications

Russell, Nerissa

2012    Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Prehistory. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Russell, Nerissa, and Katheryn C. Twiss
2017    Digesting the data: Dogs as taphonomic agents at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. In Archaeozoology of the Near East 9. M. Mashkour and M. Beech, eds. Pp. 59-73. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxbow.

Russell, Nerissa

2016 Neolithic human-animal relations. Groniek 206/207:21-32.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2015 Food and ritual. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. K. B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, eds. Pp. 197-199. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2015 Çatalhöyük. In The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. K. B. Metheny and M. C. Beaudry, eds. Pp. 91-93. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.

 

Carter, Tristan, Scott D. Haddow, Nerissa Russell, Amy Bogaard, and Christina Tsoraki

2015 Laying the foundations: Creating households at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. In Assembling Çatalhöyük. I. Hodder and A. Marciniak, eds. Pp. 97-110. EAA Themes in Contemporary Archaeology, No. 1. Leeds: Maney.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katherine I. Wright, Tristan Carter, Sheena Ketchum, Philippa Ryan, E. Nurcan Yalman, Roddy Regan, Mirjana Stevanović, and Marina Milić

2014 Bringing down the house: House closing deposits at Çatalhöyük. In Integrating Çatalhöyük: Themes from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 109-121. 32. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton, and G. Arzu Demirergi

2014 Changing animal use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. In Archaeozoology of the Near East X. B. de Cupere, V. Linseele, and S. Hamilton-Dyer, eds. Pp. 45-68. Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement. Leuven: Peeters.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton, and G. Arzu Demirergi

2013 More on the Çatalhöyük mammal remains. In Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 213-258. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Janet L. Griffitts

2013 Çatalhöyük worked bone: South and 4040 Areas. In Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 277-306. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2012 Mammals from the BACH Area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 225-242. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Kevin J. McGowan

2012 Bird remains from the BACH Area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 243-252. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2012 Worked bone from the BACH area. In Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. R. E. Tringham and M. Stevanović, eds. Pp. 347-359. Monumenta Archaeologica. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2012    Hunting sacrifice at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. In Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. A. Porter and G. M. Schwartz, eds. Pp. 79-95. Warsaw, IN: Eisenbrauns.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Amy Bogaard

2010    Subsistence actions at Çatalhöyük. In Agency and Identity in the Ancient Near East: New Paths Forward. S. R. Steadman and J. C. Ross, eds. Pp. 63-79. London: Equinox.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Louise Martin, and Katheryn C. Twiss

2009    Building memories: Commemorative deposits at Çatalhöyük. In Zooarchaeology and the Reconstruction of Cultural Systems: Case Studies from the Old World. B. S. Arbuckle, C. A. Makarewicz, and A. L. Atici, eds. Pp. 103-125. Anthropozoologica. Paris: L'Homme et l'Animal, Société de Recherche Interdisciplinaire.

 

Twiss, Katheryn C., and Nerissa Russell

2009    Taking the bull by the horns: Ideology, masculinity, and cattle horns at Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Paléorient 35(2):19-32.

 

Bogaard, Amy et al.

2009    Private pantries and celebrated surplus: Saving and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia. Antiquity 83(321):649-668.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2007    The domestication of anthropology. In Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered. R. Cassidy and M. H. Mullin, eds. Pp. 27-48. Oxford: Berg.

 

Dewbury, Adam G., and Nerissa Russell

2007    Relative frequency of butchering cutmarks produced by obsidian and flint: An experimental approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(3):354-357.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Bleda S. Düring

2006    Worthy is the lamb: A double burial at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). Paléorient 32(1):73-84.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Stephanie Meece

2006    Animal representations and animal remains at Çatalhöyük. In Çatalhöyük Perspectives: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 209-230. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Louise Martin

2005    The Çatalhöyük mammal remains. In Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-1999 Seasons. I. Hodder, ed. Pp. 33-98. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

 

Russell, Nerissa, Louise Martin, and Hijlke Buitenhuis

2005    Cattle domestication at Çatalhöyük revisited. Current Anthropology 46(5):S101-S108.

 

Russell, Nerissa, and Kevin J. McGowan

2003    Dance of the cranes: Crane symbolism at Çatalhöyük and beyond. Antiquity 77(297):445-455.

 

Russell, Nerissa

2002    The wild side of animal domestication. Society and Animals 10(3):285-302.

 

Russell, Nerissa

1998    Cattle as wealth in Neolithic Europe: Where's the beef? In The Archaeology of Value: Essays on Prestige and the Processes of Valuation. D. W. Bailey, ed. Pp. 42-54. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

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zooarchaeology Neolithic Europe Near East gender inequality human-animal relations; European and Near Eastern pre-history; Neolithic studies; zooarchaeology and bone tools; inequality; human-animal relationships; social and symbolic roles of animals and meat

 

Paul Nadasdy

Professor

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Education

  • Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001

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Keywords

Anthropology of North American Indians and the circumpolar North, anthropology of science and knowledge, environmental/ecological anthropology, indigenous-state relations, ethnography of the state, the politics of wildlife management, political economy/ecology, property, territoriality, citizenship, hunting/hunting societies

Stacey A. Langwick

Associate Professor

Publications

Books

Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Co-edited with Hansjoerg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane  Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2012

Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011

Journal Articles

in press. “Properties of (Dis)Possession: Therapeutic Plants, Intellectual Property, and Questions of Justice in Tanzania,” Special issue on Therapeutic Properties: Global Medical Cultures, Knowledge, and Law edited by Helen Tilley, Osiris, expected 2021.

2018. “A Politics of Habitability: Plants, Healing and Sovereignty in a Toxic World.” Cultural Anthropology 33(3): 415-443.

2017. Liwa, A., R. Roediger, H. Jaka, A. Bougaila, L. Smart, S. Langwick and R. Peck. “Herbal and Alternative Medicine Use in Tanzanian Adults Admitted with Hypertension-related Diseases: A Mixed-methods Study,” International Journal of Hypertension 3:1-9.

2015. “Partial Publics: The Political Promise of Traditional Medicine in Africa.”  Current Anthropology 63(4) August, with commentaries by by Rajshree Chandra, Rosemary Coombe, Ruth Prince, Noelle Sullivan, and Claire Wendland.

2012. "Agitating for Hope, Learning to Care." Comments on Clare Wendland's article, "Animating Biomedicine's Moral Order: The Crisis of Practice in Malawian Medical Training," Current Anthropology. 

2010. From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-based herbals: China's relationship to the Shifting Politics of Traditional Medicine in Tanzania. Medical Anthropology. 

2008. Articulate(d) Bodies: Traditional Medicine in a Tanzanian Hospital. American Ethnologist.

2007. Devils, Parasites and Fierce Needles: Healing and the Politics of Translation in Southeastern Tanzania. Science, Technology, and Human Values.

Book Chapters

forthcoming. “The Garden: New Objects of Medicine in the More-than-Human Anthropocene,” in Anna Harris and John Notts (eds) Between Blackboards and Formaldehyde: The Matters of Medical Knowledge. Intellect.

2018. “Healing in the Anthropocene.” In Keiichi Omura, Atsuro Morita, Shiho Satsuka and Grant Jun Otsuki (eds.) The World Multiple: Politics of Knowing and Generating Entangled Worlds. Routledge.

2017. “The Value of Secrets: Pragmatic Healers and Proprietary Knowledge.” In William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent (eds.) African Medical Pluralism. Indiana University Press. Pp. 31-49.

2012. “The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health.”  In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick (eds.) Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.

2012. “Introduction,” Transnational Medicine, Mobile Experts: Globalization, Health and Power In & Beyond Africa (co-written with Hansjoerg Dilger and Abdoulaye Kane). In Dilger, Kane, and Langwick (eds.) Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Indiana University Press.

2011 hardcover/2017 paperback. “Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania, or “Moving Away from Traditional Medicine.”” In Geissler and Molyneux (eds.) Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. Berghahn Books. Pp. 263-295.

2006. “Geographies of Medicine: Interrogating the Boundary between ‘Traditional’ and ‘Modern’ Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika.” In Tracy J. Luedke and Harry G. West (eds.)  Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Indiana University Press. Pp. 143-165.

Photo Essay

2018. “Cultivating Vitality: A Photo Essay,” Anthropology News website, 24 January.

News and Events

"Stacey Langwick receives fellowship for work on toxicity and healing" https://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/news/stacey-langwick-receives-fellowship-work-toxicity-and-healing

Food and Healing Justice workshop I, Ecological Learning Collaboratory http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/06/collaboratory-shares-ideas-food-healing-justice

"Anthropologist explores toxicity and healing in East Africa" http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/05/anthropologist-explores-toxicity-and-healing-east-africa

Planting Futures Garden, Qualities of Life working group http://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2016/12/campus-pauses-reflect-future

"Langwick Awarded Institute for Social Sciences Grant" http://anthropology.cornell.edu/langwick-awarded-institute-social-sciences-grant

"Langwick wins grant to study African Law" http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/01/langwick-wins-grant-study-african-law-medicine

Klarman Hall
260 McGraw Hall
sal54@cornell.edu

Education

PhD Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Masters of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Bachelor of Arts, Agnes Scott College. 

Departments and programs

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Keywords

Anthropology of medicine, healing and the body. Ethnography of care and chronicity. Postcolonial science studies. Toxicity. Intellectual property. Anthropology of knowledge/materiality. Ontological Politics. Crtical Plant Studies. African ethnography. Tanzania. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

 

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