Matthew Kohrman

Internal Faculty Fellow
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

Matthew Kohrman’s research and writing bring anthropological methods to bear on the ways health, culture, and politics are interrelated. Focusing on the People's Republic of China, he engages various intellectual terrains such as governmentality, gender theory, political economy, critical science studies, narrativity, and embodiment. Recently, he has begun projects linking ongoing interests at the intersection of phenomenology and political economy with questions regarding environmental attunement and the arts. At the center of much of this has been questions about the promise of filter technologies as environmental and emotional remedy. Much of his writing during 2022–2023 at the Humanities Center will be about filters.

SHC Project

Filtered Life: Gendered Dwelling Amidst Environmental Distress

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