Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann

Biography

Shaylih Muehlmann is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, where she has been a faculty member since 2010. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Muehlmann's research primarily focuses on the intersections of environmental politics, human rights, and linguistic anthropology, particularly in relation to drug trafficking and the complexities of life in US-Mexico borderlands. Her notable publications include 'River Ends' (Duke University Press, 2013), 'Wear Alligator Boots' (University of California Press, 2014), and her upcoming book 'Call Mothers: Searching Mexico’s Disappeared' (University of California Press, 2024), which investigates grassroots search movements led by mothers of the disappeared in Mexico. Muehlmann's scholarly work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the University of California Press Public Anthropology Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a Canada Research Chair, she engages in SSHRC-funded projects that explore the entanglement of animals in the politics and economies of drug trafficking, further reflecting her commitment to ethnographic analysis of contemporary societal issues.

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