Cameron Stephen Hu
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Cameron Stephen Hu
Cameron Hu is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, following fellowships in Vienna and Berlin. He received a PhD in Anthropology from University of Chicago, where his dissertation received the 2022 Daniel F. Nugent Prize in Historical Anthropology. He is a scholar of technoscience, capitalism, empire, environment, and social theory. Cameron's ongoing projects include Knowing Destroying, an historical ethnography of extractive science and planetary counterrevolution; Powerpoint Metaphysics, a book-length essay on the aesthetics and geopolitics of the "systems" era; a sequence of theoretical articles exploring liberal grammars of agency, historicity, and necessity; a collaborative exploration, with several colleagues, of secular epistemomania; and, as a member the LiCo trio, a series of fictions, films, and installations on the choreography of mental and environmental turbulence.
Office hours by appointment.
Academic Affiliations
Courses
Spring 2025
CHUM 399 - 01
Burnout