EDUCATION
2022-Present
PhD in Anthropology
Dissertation Advisors: Agustín Fuentes and Jerry Zee
External Readers: Nicholas Malone (University of Auckland), Cyren Wong Zhi Hoong (Monash University Malaysia)
Princeton University
2024
MA in Anthropology
Princeton University
2021
BA in International Relations and Anthropology
University of California, Davis
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
2024
Chu, Kymberley. July 2024. “Seeing One Animal, Two Beings.” Anthropology Now 16 (1): 12–26. doi:10.1080/19428200.2024.2352336.
UNDER REVIEW
“Anthropologists are Talking–About Unsettling the Eurocentrism of Multispecies Ethnography” (project lead and corresponding author, Ethnos)
UNDER REVIEW
“Roadmap to Integrative Ecology in the Global South” (co-author, Journal of Experimental Biology)
IN PROGRESS
“Competing Vertical and Horizontal Urbanisms”, submitted to a special issue workshop at Asia Research Institute/National University of Singapore
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2026
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (Gr. 11070)
2025
Emslie Horniman Anthropological Scholarship Fund, administered by Royal Anthropological Institute
Hack Award for Water and the Environment, administered by the High Meadows Environmental Institute
2022-2026
2017
Summer Fieldwork Grant, administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Provost Award, administered by University of California, Davis
CONFERENCE TRAVEL AND WORKSHOP GRANTS
2026
OpEd Project Workshop Tuition Scholarship, administered by American Anthropological Association and the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Company of Biologists Travel Fund
2024-2026
Dean’s Fund for Scholarly Travel, Princeton University
2023
Conference Travel Fund, Council on Science and Technology Studies, Princeton University
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) Multispecies Theory Reading Group Grant, Princeton University
2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison Southeast Asian Studies (SEASSI) Language Scholarship
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
2026
“The Word for World is Forest”: Scientists as Project Managers, Neo-Darwinism, and the Politics of Cost in Malaysia. Money and Ecology: Rethinking Value, Exchange, and Sustainability Conference, The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies and Lund University, Sweden. November 2026.
“Competing Horizontal and Vertical Urbanisms in Human-Primate and Human-Firefly Encounters”. Urbanization Beyond the City: The Making and Mobility of Concepts from Southeast Asia Workshop, Asia Research Institute (ARI) and National University of Singapore, Singapore. September 2026.
“Navigating Malaysia’s Fragmented Frontiers: Primates, Privatized Property, and the Post-Plantation Landscape”. 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute (ARI) and National University of Singapore, Singapore. June 2026.
“Co-Creating Citizen Science: Balancing People-Centered Participatory Designs and Primate Conservation”. Integrative Ecology in the Global South Workshop, Company of Biologists and Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Assam, India. March 2026.
“The Monkey King is Not for Sale: The Entanglements of Ecological Territoriality and Neo-Confucian Entrepreneurship”. Sino-spheres: A Workshop for Chinese Environmental Humanities and Social Science, the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. March 2026.
INVITED TALKS (SELECTED)
MORE DETAILS TBD
TEACHING
2025
2024
Human Evolution (ANT206) with Professor Andrea DiGeorgio in Spring 2025
Anthropology and Environment (ANT214) with Professor Jerry Zee in Fall 2024
2023
Introduction to Anthropology (ANT201) with Professor Agustín Fuentes in Fall 2023
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
2026
Peer Reviewer, Ethnos
2025
Panel Lead Organizer, “Asian and Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as Multispecies Theory”, American Anthropological Association, November 2025
Co-Organizer, Graduate Student Mentorship Workshop, Anthropology and Environment Society, American Anthropological Association, November 2025
2024
2022-2025
Event Coordinator, Landscape Lab East/Princeton University Anthropology
Panel Co-Organizer, “Ethnographies of the Wild and Feral: More-than-Human Methods for Fleeting and Uncertain Subjects, Relations, and Futures”, University of Barcelona/ European Association of Social Anthropologists in Barcelona, Spain, July 2024.
Editorial Intern, American Ethnological Society