Overview
Yu-An Kuo is a PhD student in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is interested in food and agriculture, environmental issues, multispecies, STS, sound studies, and Southeast Asia. She especially uses the edible bird nest industry in Malaysia as a lens to explore how technology shapes human-animal relationships, how it influences different groups of farmers and the trade between China and Southeast Asia with political ecology concerns.
Kuo holds an M.A. in Geography from National Taiwan University. In 2021, she participated in the STS Summer School at Harvard.