[Bio c. 2016] Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and Founding Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS, culturesofenergy.org), the first research center in the world designed specifically to promote research on the energy/environment nexus in the arts, humanities and social sciences. He is part of the editorial collective of the journal Cultural Anthropology (2015-2018) and also edits Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge, a book series for Cornell University Press. His research interests include media, knowledge, energy and power. His most recent monograph is The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era (Cornell University Press, 2013). With James Faubion and George Marcus, he has recently edited, Theory can be more than it used to be (Cornell University Press 2015) and with Imre Szeman is preparing Energy Humanities: A Reader for Johns Hopkins University Press. His next book project is a collaborative multimedia duograph with Cymene Howe, which explores the energopolitical complexities of wind power development in Southern Mexico. With Timothy Morton, he is currently developing a project for the Open Humanities Press, tentatively titled, Hyposubjects: Politics of the Ecological Emergency (Human Language Edition). He is also developing an energy humanities podcast through CENHS to further diversify the vectors of scholarly and artistic work in this emergent field.
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| Anthropologist | Aeolian Politics |
| Organizer | Aeolian Politics Poetry Workshop |
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| Anthropologist | Aeolian Politics |