Katy Overstreet

Katy Overstreet is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen, and a core member of the Centre for Sustainable Futures. Her work bridges environmental humanities, anthropology, and multispecies studies to critically examine co-species social formations and technoscientific power relations in the Anthropocene.

Education:

• PhD in Anthropology, Aarhus University (2019)
• PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz (2018)

Her research centers on multispecies ethnography and critical animal studies, with specific expertise in farm animal welfare, agricultural landscapes, and sustainability. She investigates human-nonhuman relations through co-species work, care practices, and bioindustrialization, focusing on dairy cows, insect farming, and biodiversity in both American and Danish contexts. Current projects examine technoscientific interventions in Midwestern dairy farming and insect-based 'green protein' development in Denmark.

Her publication record reveals consistent thematic focus on Anthropocene disturbances, multispecies cohabitation, and experimental methodologies. Key trends include ethnographic exploration of dairy farming systems, insect-human entanglements, and the political ecology of animal welfare, often employing sensory and landscape-based approaches to analyze sustainability dilemmas.

Overstreet actively participates in major collaborative initiatives including the COST Action 'LIFT: Lifting farm animal lives' and previously contributed to the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) project. She coordinates the Landscape Research Cluster at the SAXO-Institute with Tim Flohr Sørensen, facilitating transdisciplinary environmental research.