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Timothy K Choy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on ecological discourses, atmospheric practices, and human-nonhuman relations, with specific attention to Hong Kong and the U.S. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz and dual Bachelor's degrees from Stanford University in Linguistics and Earth Systems.
His work explores themes like scale, specificity, and exemplarity through case studies such as matsutake mushroom networks and atmospheric attunement. Choy has pioneered collaborative ethnographic methods, exemplified in the Matsutake Worlds project. His publications include Ecologies of Comparison (2011) and influential articles in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist.
- Awards: Rachel Carson Prize (2013), Gregory Bateson Prize Honorable Mention (2012)
- Key Research: Mycorrhizal networks, atmospheric studies, multispecies ethnography
Choy's scholarship bridges anthropology with environmental science and philosophy, emphasizing nonhuman agency and decolonizing methodologies. His current work engages with distributional logics and atmospheric politics in the Anthropocene.
