Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleProfessor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationHumanities Division
Feminist Studies Department
Environmental Studies Department

Web SiteMatsutake

Primary Office LocationSocial Sciences 1
411

Office HoursOn Leave

Mail StopSocial Sciences 1 Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Yale University
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Interests

Culture and politics; feminist theory; globalization; multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; multi-sited ethnography; Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.

Selected Publications

• Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
• In the Realm of the Diamond Queen. Princeton University Press, 1994.
• Words in Motion (C. Gluck and A. Tsing, eds.) Duke University Press, 2009.
• Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia. (P. Greenough and A. Tsing, eds). Duke University Press, 2003.
• Shock and Awe: War on Words. (B. van Eekelen, J. González, B. Stötzer, and A. Tsing, eds). New Pacific Press, 2004.
• Communities and Conservation (J.P. Brosius, A. Tsing, and C. Zerner, eds.) AltaMira Press 2005.
• Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture  (F. Ginsburg and A. Tsing, eds). Beacon Press, 1992.