CHLOE AHMANN

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell. Much of my work is set in Baltimore, and considers what efforts to think and enact environmental futures look like from the sedimented space of late industrialism. I am also beginning research on environmentally conscious separatist movements in the Pacific Northwest United States that seek to repair body, soil, and soul from the “corruptions” of the modern age. This website includes links to my recent writing as well as background on my research and teaching. 

 

For the latest writing, see “The Fight Against Incineration is a Chance to Right Historic Wrongs,” a recent op-ed in the Baltimore Beat co-authored with Anand Pandian, and “Reading Fascists Reading Shakespeare: Literary Populism in White Power Fiction,” a new article with Devin Proctor, just released in Public Culture.

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Finally, I’m excited to share that my first book, Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore, is now out with the University of Chicago Press, and was recently recognized with an honorable mention for the Julian Steward Award from the Anthropology and Environment Society. You can read the open-access version for free here.