Hannah R. Chazin

Hannah Chazin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Her research focuses on the long-term history of human-animal relations and how archaeological narratives about the past shape and are shaped by contemporary concerns and visions of the future. Drawing on her own experiences in isotope archaeology, she is currently working on a project that examines how archaeological practices of meaning-making and storytelling are being transformed by the explosion in new types of archaeological data produced through cutting-edge laboratory science. Her previous book, Live Stock and Dead Things: Zoopolitics between domestication and modernity (University of Chicago Press 2024), used new archaeological interpretations of human-animal relations in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus to pull apart the deep-seated narratives that seek the origins of contemporary forms of inequality and instrumental relations with nonhuman animals in the deeper past of animal domestication.

Hannah Chazin serves as an Advisory Committee Member.