Rachel Cypher

Rachel Cypher is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, holding a MA from UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She challenges conventional notions of ethnography and pedagogy to pose profound questions about narrative and how we come to know and feel the world. In her Dissertation, “Love in the Anthropocene: On the Experience of an Emergent Globality,” she tells a parable about our times through the struggles of farmers and families on the frontier of soybean expansion in the Pampas of Argentina. It is a story about how in the early days of modernization, everyone was high with it, and how recently that high only holds in marginal spaces.