School of Social and Political Science

Background

Education

Published works

Han, M. 2022. ‘More-than-human kinship against proximal loneliness: practising emergent multispecies care with a dog in a pandemic and beyond’. Feminist Theory. Special issue: Feminist Loneliness Studies. doi.org/10.1177/14647001211062732

Han, M. 2021. ‘Toward a reflexive anthropology’. Gender, Work & Organization. Special issue: Race, Difference and Power: Recursions of Coloniality in Work and Organizations. doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12755

Han, M. 2014. “Domestic Abuse of Women and Restorative Justice in Nunavut.” Fields | Terrains 4:27-31.

Lectures

2022

• ‘Imagining queer futures with dog children’. Guest lecture for ANTH 204 Anthropology of Meaning, 10 March, McGill University.
• ‘No future for dog children’. Guest lecture for Kinship: Structure and Process. 25 Feb, University of Edinburgh.

2021

• ‘Doing digital ethnographic fieldwork’. Guest lecture for PGSP11016 Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection, 4 Oct, University of Edinburgh.
• ‘Digital ethnography’. Guest lecture for SCAN08005 Ethnography: Theory and Practice, 11 Feb, University of Edinburgh.

2020

• ‘Remote ethnography’. Guest lecture for PGSP11016 Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection, 1 Oct, University of Edinburgh.

2017

• ‘Creating and confining spaces for affective materiality: BDSM and the moral economy of neoliberalism’. Sex Salon Lecture Series, 2 Nov, University of Toronto.

 Conference activities

2022

• ‘Multispecies choreographies’. Dog Day — Entre Chien et Loup, 17 Jun, Edinburgh College of Art.

2021

• ‘More-than-human kinship as a technology of exclusion: animalised humans and racialised animals in the fold of whiteness. 4S Annual Meeting — Good Relations: Practices and Methods in Unequal and Uncertain Worlds, 7 Oct, remote.

2020

• Chair. Dismantling Oppressive Structures in Anthropology conference, DOSiA, 25 Nov, remote.
• Invited panelist. Multispecies encounters in our everyday lives, 21 Oct, University of St Andrews.
• ‘The ugliness of multispecies intersubjectivity: pandemic racism and the love of animals in the UK’. ASA 2020: How to Live Through a Pandemic, 27 Aug, remote.
• ‘More-than-human methods and ethics in canine ethnography’. LOVA workshop: feminist canine ethnography, 17 Jan, University of Amsterdam.

2019

• ‘Understanding queer and crip time with multispecies temporality’. More Than Human Workshop, 5 May, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art.
• ‘Kibbles of love and chicken: an interspecies story about dog food’. Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and Students of Medical Anthropology symposium, 21 February, University of Edinburgh.

2018

• Co-presented with Sophia Hoffinger. ‘Resting against resistance: academic rigidity and stagnation in neoliberal times’. Stagnation in a changing world conference, 12 Nov, University of St Andrews.

2017

• Co-presented with Ruth Coleszar-Green. An ethnographic critique of queer spaces. International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, 27 Jul, Toronto.

Media

2022

• ‘Anthrozoology of dogs and their humans’, Bunsen and Beaker Show, 17 May.
• ‘Knowing about dogs’, Doctors of P(h)rocrastination, 29 Mar.

2021

• ‘What can our kinship with animals tell us about our relationships with other humans?’, Animalistic podcast, 14 Nov.
• ‘Just Chatting Assassin’s Creed and multi-species kinship’, Gamer’s Guide to Ecology podcast, 23 Oct.
• ‘The ugliness of multispecies intersubjectivity: pandemic racism and the love of animals in the UK’, Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. https://blog.castac.org/2021/03/the-ugliness-of-multispecies-intersubjectivity-pandemic-racism-and-the-love-of-animals-in-the-u-k/
• ‘Multispecies kinship, dogs & racism’, Beyond Species Podcast episode 28, 17 Jan.

2020

• ‘Dogs, racism, and anthrozoology: talking multispecies kinship with Maythe Han’, Anthropologically Speaking Podcast, 17 Oct.
   

Honours, awards, and grants