
Maythe S.-W. Han
Job Title
PhD student / dog person: nature–cultures of more-than-human kinship in Edinburgh and on the internet

Research interests
Research interests
Kinship, ecology, ecological anthropology, experimental research, visual anthropology, materiality, material culture, critical theory, linguistic anthropology, storytelling, experimental methodologies, friendship, relatedness, dogs, multispecies anthropology, more-than-human ethnography, critical whiteness studies
Background
Education
2018 - present |
PhD Social Anthropology Supervisors: Prof. Janet Carsten + Dr. Rebecca Marsland |
2015 - 2016 |
MA Material and Visual Culture Supervisor: Prof. Victor Buchli |
2011 - 2015 | BA Anthropology/Archaeology, Classics, World Religions McGill University / Montréal, Canada Research foci: queer anthropology, human ecology, Ancient Greek and Latin literature |
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
2020 |
Atelier Postgraduate Research Grant |
2017-2018 |
Young Canada Works Grant |
2013 |
Dean’s Honour List |
2011 |
Ontario Scholar |