Terese Gagnon
Syracuse University
Terese Gagnon is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is currently finishing her dissertation in dialogue with Karen individuals from Myanmar, exploring relationships between people, plants, and sensory politics in forced migration and diaspora. Her writing has appeared in Ethnography, Anthropology and Humanism, Asian Journal of Peacebuilding and other journals. Her ethnographic poetry has been recognized with a prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2013) and has been published in academic and literary journals. She is co-author of the book, Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press in spring of 2021.
