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Kevin Burke is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on cultural politics and forest science, examining how these elements shape environmental governance. His dissertation research is an ethnographic study of industrial pine plantations in the southern United States that explores how societies manage these plantations. Burke's research addresses critical questions regarding environmental futures, the politics of science and technology, and land governance. He is currently involved in a project that studies ghost forests—landscapes that exhibit synchronous mass tree death due to climate change. This project, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, examines the histories and ongoing politics of landscape management along the eastern seaboard of the United States.
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