Eben Kirksey
Eben Kirksey is an American anthropologist who is perhaps best known for his work in multispecies ethnography—a field that situates contemporary scholarship on animals, microbes, plants, and fungi within deeply rooted traditions of environmental anthropology, continental philosophy, and the sociology of science. Duke University Press has published his two books—Freedom in Entangled Worlds (2012) and Emergent Ecologies (2015)— as well as one edited collection: The Multispecies Salon (2014). Currently he is finishing a new book for St. Martins Press about the scientists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs, and activists remaking the human race with the gene editing tool called CRISPR. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, hosted Kirksey in the 2019-2020 academic year, where he conducted research on gene editing, the innovation economy, and social inequality.