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Amiel Bize serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, where his interdisciplinary work bridges economic anthropology, science and technology studies, and feminist theory to investigate social transformations at capitalist margins.
He earned his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2018, following prior academic engagement at Germany's University of Bayreuth. His research program centers on value production in post-agrarian contexts, particularly examining how bodies, materials, and meanings shape capitalist circulation in western Kenya.
Bize's scholarship reveals consistent focus on moral economies at capitalist frontiers through ethnographic analysis of salvage practices, gleaning systems, and climate-sensitive insurance. Geographically anchored in East Africa, his publications demonstrate how populations navigate accumulation logics while sustaining non-capitalist relations through infrastructural interventions, waiting practices, and remainder-based redistribution.
Research support includes:
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant
- National Science Foundation Grant
- Social Science Research Institute Grant
- FLAS Fellowship
As an educator, Bize supervises undergraduate honors theses and graduate independent studies while teaching courses including Ecopolitics (ANTHR 4417), demonstrating commitment to mentoring emerging scholars in anthropological inquiry. His current projects extend into gleaning theory and climate finance technologies, positioning him at the forefront of critical economic anthropology.
