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About Elena Sobrino
I am a cultural anthropologist who focuses on environmental and labor politics in the American Rust Belt. Last year I received my doctorate from a program many people are surprised to hear even exists at MIT: History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). It was in this eclectic community that I developed an ethnographic project in my home state of Michigan about the Flint water crisis. I'm now working on publishing material from my dissertation, which explored how people living with toxicity think about crisis and manage stigmas imposed from outside.
I currently teach anthropology classes at Tufts University about environment, race, and science. When I'm not writing or teaching, I work at a family-owned wine bar in Cambridge and am exploring the possibility of training in psychoanalysis.
I LOVE the NBN podcasts and have listened to them since my first year of graduate school in 2016. During Covid I think I listened to almost every New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast that came out in that period on my walks. I love discovering new books and I love talking to people in interviews, so I think working as a host could be a great fit. My strengths are in anthropology of environment, capitalism, ethnographic methods, and science and technology studies. Please let me know if I can provide any more information, and thank you for reading this!
NBN Episodes hosted by Elena:
October 20, 2024
Resigned Activism
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and …