EDUCATION
Ph.D., Anthropology & School of the Environment, Yale University
MPhil, Anthropology and Environment, Yale University
M.A., Department of English, Jadavpur University
B.A., Department of English, Jadavpur University
BIO
Dr. Lav Kanoi is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer (Anthropology) with the Religion, Ecology, and Expressive Culture (REEC) Initiative at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. His research in environmental anthropology and the environmental humanities, drawing on the social and natural sciences, focuses on the social and environmental dimensions of cities and urban development. His doctoral dissertation research at the combined Department of Anthropology and School of the Environment PhD program at Yale University centered on changing waterscapes in India’s National Capital Region of Delhi, where, like many other large human settlements, the city struggles to manage water equitably and sustainably in the face of increasing water crises and climate change. At Yale, Dr. Kanoi has coordinated, and is involved with, a number of different research groups and research collectives in Environmental Anthropology, South Asian Studies, Religion and Ecology, and the Environmental Humanities. Dr. Kanoi is also a literary translator working across classical and contemporary Indian and European languages, and has published academic and creative translations of texts from Latin to English, and from Bengali and English to Hindi. Dr. Kanoi feels strongly about the environment, cities, language(s), and the many different things that go into the making of higher education.
Keywords: Urban ecology; water; postcolonial studies; environmental humanities; development studies; history and literature; language and linguistics; India
RECENT PUBLICATION
Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., Yamada, S., & Dove, M. R. (2022). ‘What is infrastructure? What does it do?’: anthropological perspectives on the workings of infrastructure (s). Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2(1), 012002.
Yamada, S., Kanoi, L., Koh, V., Lim, A., & Dove, M. R. (2022). Sustainability as a moral discourse: Its shifting meanings, exclusions, and anxieties. Sustainability, 14(5), 3095.