Kath Weston

Professor Kath Weston is a British Academy Global Professor at the School of Social and Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.  Her research focuses on bodies and visceral engagement in ways that integrate the study of kinship, political ecology, the anthropology of finance, science and technology studies, historical anthropology, and identity politics. Her British Academy award project explores how early modern European scientific inquiries into blood circulation, generation, and gestation remain deeply embedded in contemporary understandings of prosperity, finance, and money creation.  Her research interests include:

• Kinship
• Political ecology
• Anthropology of finance
• Science and technology
• Historical anthropology
• Identity politics
• Embodiment and the anthropology of the body
• Disasters
• Climate change
• Water
• Environmental politics
• Ethnographic writing

Her recent outputs include:

• Weston, K. (2018). The ethnographer's magic as sympathetic magic. Social Anthropology, 26(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12492
• Weston, K. (2017). Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World. (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373827