Adrianna Link

Adrianna Link is Curator of History of Science at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in the history of science from Johns Hopkins University, where she specialized in the history of American anthropology and the formation of anthropological archives during the mid-20th century. She is currently finishing a book manuscript on the history of “urgent anthropology.” She is also a working group member on the Council for the Preservation of the Anthropological Record (CoPAR), and serves on the Advisory Board of the AAA’s History of Anthropology Interest Group and as an editor for the History of Anthropology Review.

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Editors’ Introduction: Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata

Theorizing the Contemporary

Editors’ Introduction: Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata

The essays in this Fieldsights dossier approach the contemporary climate crisis and the conceptions of humanity it evokes through focused histories of environme... More

Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology

Theorizing the Contemporary

Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology

These essays confront the climate crisis, and the conceptions of humanity it evokes, through the histories of environmental anthropology itself. Over time, conc... More