Anand Pandian

Board Member

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down (Stanford University Press, 2025), and A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke University Press, 2019). Anand serves as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures.

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Edward Casey and Mary Watkins

Member Voices

Edward Casey and Mary Watkins

I’ve been thinking a lot about The Wall: what might make a project of such gargantuan and disruptive scale so appealing to many Americans, and how to think and ... More

Plastic

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plastic

Plastic substances are now a ubiquitous planetary presence, far beyond the human places for which they were meant. At this point, ninety percent of global seabi... More

Introduction: Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen

Theorizing the Contemporary

Introduction: Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen

This is a work in progress, and we hope that you might also think of pitching in. We write in the midst of a dramatic revaluation of the epoch at hand, as a sub... More

Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen

Theorizing the Contemporary

Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen

The idea of an Anthropocene has spread with astonishing speed, dislodging familiar terms like nature and environment from their customary preeminence as signs o... More