Ethnographer, tinkerer, earthling

Anand Pandian is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His work aims for ecological awareness, a sense of appreciation for the many beings and elements that sustain our worlds. Anand studied at Amherst College and UC Berkeley, and has taught at Johns Hopkins since 2007. He has written several award-winning books, including Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, and A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Anand also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaboration, meant for researchers, activists, creatives, anyone. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on the global fight to build a zero waste future, anchored in stories from the United States, India, Ghana, and Spain.