About

Kamal Kariem is an environmental and political anthropologist. His research and teaching interests center on global Indigeneities and comparative imperial formations as these intersect with nature protection. These interests come together in his book project, tentatively titled Believing Conservation: Hunting, Protecting Nature, and Altering Indigeneity on the Bikin River, in which he demonstrates how the environment becomes a site of contestation over state belonging among the Udege through conflicting mobilizations of late Imperial Russian and Soviet histories. His other research interests are environmental stewardship, the ethnography of archives, Indigenous sovereignty, historical anthropology, the history of Russian ethnography, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of time.

Kamal received his B.A. in Anthropology and Slavic Studies from Connecticut College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University

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Publicly Available Scholarship:

Kariem, Kamal. 2022. “Between Notes and Diaries: Ethnographic Notes, Coevalness, and Positionality” In “Taking Note: Complexities and Ambiguities in Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” edited by Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori and Verónica Sousa, American Ethnologist website, 26 August 2022, [https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/taking-note-complexities-and-ambiguities-in-writing-ethnographic-fieldnotes/between-notes-and-diaries-ethnographic-notes-coevalness-and-positionality].

Kariem, Kamal. “Race and Russian Studies in the Russian Review.” The Russian Review, June 24, 2021. https://russianreview.ku.edu/race-and-russian-studies-russian-review.

 Kariem, Kamal. “A Calm Panic: Thoughts on Beginning Fieldwork in the Russian Far East (RFE) during the COVID-19 Epidemic.” In “Pandemic Diaries” Gabriela Manley, Bryan M Dougan, and Carole McGranahan, eds., American Ethnologist website, March 27, 2020. [https://americanethnologist.org/features/collections/pandemic-diaries/a-calm-panic-thoughts-on-beginning-fieldwork-in-the-russian-far-east-rfe-during-the-covid-19-epidemic]