CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Aida works at the intersection of environmental anthropology, STS, history of science, critical race theory and environmental humanities across South and Southeast Asia. Her doctoral dissertation investigates the multivalent registers of forest that emerge in the aftermath of colonial extraction in Malaysia. She is also researching the interdependence between prices, pathogens and progeny across the international rubber industry from the early twentieth century until today, and the (settler-)colonial geographies of biochemistry in the early twentieth century. Aida’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, as well as the Holtz Center for STS, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE), the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), and the Global Health Institute (GHI) at UW-Madison. Aida is currently a Doctoral Fellow and Project Assistant with Humanities Education for Anti-racism Learning the STEM (HEAL STEM), a Just Futures Initiative of the Andrew Mellon Foundation at UW-Madison.