CEH is happy to welcome Andreas Thyrsted Laursen who, as our new research assistant, will help organize and support CEH activities through the coming fall semester.

Andreas holds a BSc and MSc in anthropology, both from Aarhus University. For his thesis, completed in spring 2022 under the supervision of Heather, he explored how local human land-usages around Yellowstone National Park are altering the lives of migratory ungulates (hoofed herbivores) in exceedingly subtle, albeit profound ways, and how wildlife researchers and managers, in turn, come to know about such changes through both embodied and digital means like GPS wildlife tracking technology. Questions concerning onto-epistemology, cross-disciplinarity, and cross-species reciprocity in the Anthropocene remain among Andreas’ key interests with the question of how digital modes of knowing nonhumans may be employed anthropologically being of particular interest at the moment.

Andreas will be working at CEH part-time while also holding a position at Aalborg University with CEH affiliate Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen.