Keynote Speaker

We are excited to announce Dr. Chloe Ahmann as our keynote speaker for the 2024 JHU Anthropology Graduate Conference. Her keynote address, titled “Slow Violence and Slow Writing: Anthropology after Defense,” will take place on Sunday, April 21st from 1:30 – 2:45 pm.

Dr. Chloe Ahmann

Dr. Chloe Ahmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell. Much of her work is set in Baltimore and considers what efforts to think and enact environmental futures look like from the sedimented space of late industrialism. She is also beginning research on ecofascist sentiments in the United States, and the dark utopian visions that sustain them. 

Ahmann’s most recent writing includes “Fieldwork Confessionals,” a special collection she co-edited, published in American Anthropologist, and “Uncertainty in Motion,” a new research article in Cultural Anthropology.

Her first book, Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore, is in production with the University of Chicago Press and scheduled for release this spring.