Andrew M. Carruthers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in linguistic anthropology, semiotics, and Southeast Asian studies, among other topical classes related to migration and globalization. He is trained in ethnography and has a focus on Island Southeast Asia, specifically studying the everyday evaluative practices of Malay-speaking migrants and how they jointly navigate the infrastructural realities of life in this populous archipelago. His recent research and writing have centered on the theme of 'comparison' as a productive theoretical and methodological problem within humanistic and social scientific inquiries. In 2022-2023, Carruthers served as a U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia, based at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Foundation Research Group on 'Borders, Mobility, New Infrastructures' at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Fellow at the Indonesian Malaysian Studies Programmes Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.