Michael Degani is an assistant professor of environmental anthropology at the University of Cambridge and the Juliet Campbell Fellow in Social Anthropology at Girton College, researching energy, infrastructure, and design in Africa and beyond.  He is the author of The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2022), an ethnography of a national power grid. He is currently researching the role of religious orders in off-grid rural electrification in Tanzania.