Julia Sizek

Julia Sizek is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies how sacred site protection and environmental conservation reshape understandings of history, land, and property in the California desert. From 2014–2017, she served as a Contributing Editor for the SCA website. From 2017–2019, she served as student representative to the SCA Board and co-coordinator of the Contributing Editors Program.

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Gardening with Love and Others: Teaching Multispecies Ethnography and Affect with Julie Soleil Archambault

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Gardening with Love and Others: Teaching Multispecies Ethnography and Affect with Julie Soleil Archambault

Julie Soleil Archambault is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. This Teaching Too... More

Selva Life and Death: A Conversation in Images with Kristina Lyons

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Selva Life and Death: A Conversation in Images with Kristina Lyons

Julia Sizek: I wanted to start this interview with the first photo that appears in your article, where we see a house almost entirely hidden by the selva. In th... More

Porcine Worlds: An Interview with Alex Blanchette

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Porcine Worlds: An Interview with Alex Blanchette

Julia Sizek: In your article, you discuss the ways in which human labor has been reorganized to tend to porcine bodies, and you end your article with a call for... More

Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime: Supplemental Material

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Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on the body and embodiment, including Thomas Csordas’ seminal article “Somatic Modes of... More

Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China: Supplemental Material

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Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published several articles on studies of disease and its securitization. See Andrew Lakoff’s “The Generic Biothreat... More