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.

More information on Jason Cons's work can be found on his personal website.

Emma Pask is a Postdoc at School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology. Her research broadly investigates the relationship between techno-scientific practices of land-use, environmental fantasies, and statecraft. In her doctoral work at the University of Chicago, she conducted an ethnography of Texan bat scientists and, in doing so, ended up studying the science of Texas’s environmental stewardship, political myth-making, and historical storytelling primarily in the shape of “the range” and “species ranges.” During her postdoc she will be doing research that further explores the historical formation of political-ecological imaginaries in the American West.