Anthropologies of Tomorrow Speakers

Past AOT Speakers
		Dr. Danilyn Rutherford Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World 10/27/2025 Danilyn Rutherford is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua, and Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
		Dr. Adia Benton On Pandemic Potential 11/4/2024 Dr. Benton is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University whose research and teaching interests include- global health, biomedicine, development, humanitarianism, political economy, race, gender, sports, Sierra Leone, Mozambique.
		Dr. Roslynn Ang Complicating Resistance and Compliance: Strategies of Indigenous Ainu Survival in Everyday Spaces 4/5/2024 Dr. Ang is an educator and scholar in the intersections of cultural anthropology, East Asian Studies, settler colonial studies and critical heritage studies.
		Dr. Sophie Chao Time has Come to a Stop: Indigenous Lifeworlds, Socio-Environmental Change, and Plantation Temporalities on the West Papuan Resource Frontier 11/18/2023 Dr. Chao is an environmental anthropologist and environmental humanities scholar who's currently DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
		Dr. Tessa Farmer Well-Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo 9/7/2023 Dr. Farmer is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
		Dr. Christopher Lynn How to Be a Publicly Engaged Anthropologist and Make It Count 5/2/2023 Dr. Lynn is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama with expertise in biocultural medical anthropology.
		Drs. Joseph Sony Jean & Holly Cusack-McVeigh PLUNDERED PAST: Repatriating Haiti's Cultural Heritage 4/7/2022 Dr. Jean is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Institute for History. Dr. Cusack-McVeigh is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
		Dr. Risa Cromer Critical Conversation: Abortion 10/7/2022 Dr. Cromer is a cultural anthropologist, educator, and advocate for justice and is an Associate Professor at Purdue University.
		Dr. Kristina Lyons Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics 10/21/2021 Dr. Lyons is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennyslvania whose current research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts, feminist science studies, and legal anthropology in Latin America.
		Dr. Dána-Ain Davis Pregnancy & Premature Birth in the Afterlife of Slavery 10/25/2020 Dr. Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology at the City University of New York. She has focused her attention on reproduction, race and the technologies that assist in reproduction.