PhD candidate, University of California Santa Cruz
Contributing Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Lilith
Lilith Frakes is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with designated emphases in Anthropology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Her dissertation research examines the ethical, scientific, and affective assemblages that emerge around hybrid primates in conservation and sanctuary contexts, with ethnographic fieldwork in the United States and Malaysia. Drawing on multispecies ethnography and science and technology studies, Lilith explores how practices of care, conservation, and classification shape possibilities for interspecies flourishing, and how hybrid animals unsettle dominant conservation paradigms and scientific categories.