Kristin Skrabut
Research/Areas of Interest
Urban Anthropology and Ethnography; Global Poverty and Development; Housing and Infrastructure; Gender and Kinship; Latin American Studies; Political and Legal Anthropology
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, United States, 2014
- MA, Anthropology and Population, Brown University, Providence, United States, 2008
- BA, Sociocultural Anthropology, Latin American Studies concentration, New York University, New York, United States, 2005
Biography
Kristin Skrabut is Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Anthropology, and a faculty affiliate of Latin American Studies at Tufts. Her research uses anthropological theory and ethnographic methods to explore how state policies and transnational phenomena shape people's everyday lives, identities, relationships and the built environment. Her first book project, Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru (University of Texas Press, 2024), draws on long term fieldwork in Lima's peripheral settlements to examine how the international war on poverty shapes politics, identities, relationships, and urban space. She has published related research on informal urban development, the right to the city, and the ground-level dynamics of Peruvian statecraft in edited volumes and in the the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Current Anthropology and City and Society.
Building on this work, Skrabut is elaborating two new areas of research. The first, Rewiring the State: Digital Transformations of Politics and Citizenship, investigates how emerging information and communication technologies are reshaping state-society relationships in Latin America. The second, Food Insecurity and the Intimate Politics of Milk, explores the meanings, origins, and intimate effects of food insecurity in Peru.
Prior to coming to Tufts, Skrabut served as a Lecturer of Social Studies at Harvard University and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Cities and Development research cluster at the London School of Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Brown University where she also received special training in interdisciplinary population studies. She received her B.A. in Anthropology with a focus on Latin American studies at New York University
Building on this work, Skrabut is elaborating two new areas of research. The first, Rewiring the State: Digital Transformations of Politics and Citizenship, investigates how emerging information and communication technologies are reshaping state-society relationships in Latin America. The second, Food Insecurity and the Intimate Politics of Milk, explores the meanings, origins, and intimate effects of food insecurity in Peru.
Prior to coming to Tufts, Skrabut served as a Lecturer of Social Studies at Harvard University and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Cities and Development research cluster at the London School of Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Brown University where she also received special training in interdisciplinary population studies. She received her B.A. in Anthropology with a focus on Latin American studies at New York University