Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

She is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Aarhus University in Denmark where she is also director of the AURA project. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1993), Friction (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015), and 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 won a Niels Bohr Professorship at Aarhus University in Denmark for her contribution to interdisciplinary work in the fields of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. She is currently developing a transdisciplinary program for exploring the Anthropocene. Together with Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and FeiFei Zhou, she coedited Stanford University Press’s digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than Human Anthropocene (2020) as well as in a more traditional form Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: New Nature (2024).