Anna Tsing
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is an American anthropologist. She is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018, she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.Studies
Tsing received her B.A. from Yale University and completed her M.A. and PhD at Stanford University.On receiving her doctoral degree, she served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She then, joined UC Santa Cruz.
She has contributed, and written several articles and books on a broad range of anthropological subjects. In 2010, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 2013, Tsing was bestowed the Niels Bohr Professorship at Aarhus University in Denmark for her contribution to interdisciplinary work in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. She is currently developing a transdisciplinary program for exploring the Anthropocene. Tsing is director of the AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene at Aarhus University. The project was funded by the Danish National Research Foundation for a five-year period until 2018.Notable works
Some of Tsing's notable work comprise the following books:
- In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place
- Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
