Michael Eilenberg is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University. His primary research interests’ center on issues of state formation, citizenship, agrarian expansion and climate politics in frontier settings. In particular he investigates state-society dynamics in borderland regions of Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. Within this research frame, he has been dealing with different transnational processes such as illicit cross-border trade, labor migration, land conflicts, biosecurity and other kinds of cross-border movements and issues.

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Jason Cons is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He works on borders in South Asia, climate and agrarian change, and rural development. He has conducted extensive research in Bangladesh on a range of issues including: climate security, disputed territory along the India-Bangladesh border, the impacts of shrimp aquaculture in coastal areas, and the politics of development. His current research is situated in the Sundarbans and the Southwest Delta region of Bangladesh. Addressing climate change related development, conservation, industrialization, piracy, and security, it explores the ways that imaginations of future climate change are shaping the delta and the India-Bangladesh border in the present.

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Mikel Venhovens is a Postdoc at School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology. His research interests are centered around conflict dynamics regarding de-facto states, such as issues of (nation-) state building, Crisis & (post-) conflict, violence, ethnicity, disenfranchement borderization processes, ruination, uncertainty and (im-)mobility politics. My main geographic focus at the moment is the Post-Soviet Sphere, with specific focus on the semi-recognized Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine.

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Emma Pask was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology (2024-2025). Her research broadly explores the relationship between techno-scientific land-use practices, environmental imaginaries, and statecraft. In her doctoral work at the University of Chicago, she conducted an ethnography of Texan bat scientists, which led her to study the science of environmental stewardship in Texas, as well as the political myth-making and historical storytelling shaped through concepts such as “the range” and “species ranges.” During her postdoc, she continued to investigate the historical formation of political-ecological imaginaries in the American West.