Shelby House (she/they)

I am a queer woman of Poarch (Creek) descent and an anti-Zionist, anti-capitalist academic who is disgusted by the U.S. fascist regime and its efforts to quell dissent, disappear human beings, crush public education, and further enrich the world's wealthiest people at the cost of countless human lives. 

My work has examined the role of extreme heat as a social, political, and ecological actor in modern South Asia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my research explored the politics of empathy, incarceration, and captivity at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. 

You can find my writing in Anthropological Quarterly, South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies, as well as in an edited volume from Vernon Press entitled Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene.

I live and work in Seattle, as a guest on the occupied homelands of Coast Salish peoples.