Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Vanessa Koh
Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environment and Society
Research Interests
Land, Environmental justice, Resources, State formation, Sovereignty, Postcolonial urbanisms, Political ecology, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Biography
Vanessa Koh is an anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on the nexus between land reclamation, sovereignty, and climate change in Singapore. She studies what it means to make both land and environmental claims in an epoch marked by increasing precarity. Prior to joining Brown, she received her Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Anthropology and School of the Environment in 2023 and was the 2023-2024 Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University.