multispecies entanglements

  • Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”

    I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.Next stop: “Chapter 1- Contested Actors”

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  • Making a Multispecies Community: A Personal Journey

    Since the start of the pandemic, my partner and I have worked to transform our San Antonio, TX backyard to a wildlife-friendly space. It began with a small garden pond just outside of our dining room picture window. The pond has been a hit! We have mosquito fish that are friendly and keep the mosquito

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  • Shadows, Ambiguity, and More-Than-Human Politics

    I am currently working on a manuscript exploring the ways that both literal and metaphorical shadows produce ambiguity in more-than-human communities. In order to be participating members of these communities, we have to find ways to engage in a politics that bridges evolutionary, ontological, and perceptual barriers. I attempt to do so through the ethnographic

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  • A Tale of Two Snakes

    A Tale of Two Snakes

    Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small garter snakes (a blue-sided garter snake and valley garter snake). Most people in the USA have seen a garter snake of some sort as they are widely

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  • Hummingbirds are Nature’s…

    One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other living organisms are of central interest, but the ontological relationships of other organisms go deep. A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with my partner (who is a gender scholar), and

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