
Dr. Cameron Hu
Affiliate Scholar
Hus research focuses on technoscience, capitalism, war, and the geopolitics of planet. He has three longterm projects: Planet Texas, a global ethnography of the US fracking revolution; Epistemania, a critical genealogy of contemporary ideologies of "knowledge production"; and GeoLiberalism, an historical anthropology of liberal war and planetary science in 1990s. His recent essays are published in Cultural Anthropology, Social Studies of Science, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and forthcoming in American Anthropologist, Theory & Event, and Environmental History, as well as several edited volumes and exhibition catalogues. As a member of the LiCo collective he has created films, fictions, and installations for the House of World Cultures (Berlin) and The New Institute (Rotterdam).
- 2024—present: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University
- 2022-2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Humboldt Foundation and RIFS
- 2021—2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute
- Science Studies
- Critical Theory
- Political Anthropology
- Environmental Humanities