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Kimberly Schoemaker

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DPhil Student, Social Anthropology

Linacre College

Thesis: 

Valuing Seaweed: Kelp Farming, Climate Change, and New England's Working Waterfronts (WORKING TITLE)

Research interests: 

Climate change; coastal livelihoods; science and technology studies; infrastructure; food production; labour; more-than-human relations; environmental anthropology

Awards

Prof. David Parkin Prize in Ethnographic Materials (Oxford) (2019)
Rausing Scholarship in Anthropology (Linacre College, Oxford) (2019-Present)

Publications

Schoemaker, K. (2025), Sand-Hungry: Accumulations, Erosions, and the Self-Feeding Logic of Beach Renourishment. Antipode. 

Previous education 

MPhil in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford (2019) with distinction
MA, University of Pennsylvania
BA, University of Notre Dame

Dr Javier Lezaun

James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance, Director of InSIS

Dr Thomas Cousins

Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa, Director of ISCA