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Email:
ameyyunzhang@gmail.com
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Amey Zhang is a PhD candidate in the research program “Learning Nature(s): A Cross-Cultural Ethnography of Children’s Relationship to the Nonhuman World.” She is interested in human-nonhuman communication, multispecies ethnography, and the use of comics in anthropology and storytelling. Before anthropology, Amey studied ecology, animal cognition, studio art, and animation, spending time at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the Animal Minds lab in New Zealand. She holds an MS in cognitive and evolutionary anthropology from University of Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on the role of cooperative childcare in the evolution of infant vocalizations and social motivations. She is currently co-authoring a graphic ethnography with linguistic anthropologist Anna Corwin.
Outside of academia, Amey loves to swing dance and paint plants.
Dissertation project: Learning Nature(s): A Cross-Cultural Ethnography of Children’s Relationship to the Nonhuman World