Dr. Kristina Lyons

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Kristina Lyons’ current research is situated at the interfaces of socio-ecological conflicts, feminist science studies, and legal anthropology in Latin America. Her manuscript, Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners' Life Politics (Duke 2020), explores the interactions between various practitioners – from state soil scientists to peasant farmers – as they cultivate alternatives to commercial coca crops amid military-led, growth-oriented development paradigms intended to substitute these crops. In 2015, Dr. Lyons directed a popular education documentary film project based on farmer-to-farmer alternative agricultural practices called Cultivating Bien Vivir (Living Well). Her current work focuses on themes of memory, mourning, water, geological processes, participatory forms of territorial planning, and socio-natural disaster, along with water-inspired subjectivities.

Research Interests

Courses

ANTH 6010 Contemporary Approaches Study of Culture & Society ANTH 3110 Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities ANTH 5410 Critical Engagements Science(s) Justice(s) ANTH 2317 Politics of Matter ANTH 5510 Experimental Ethnography Interfaces Arts Sciences ANTH 0031 Rights of Nature Conflict Transition

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
Application Checklist
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