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, capital, empire, environment, and critical theory.

His ongoing projects include Knowing Destroying, an historical ethnography of corporate science and planetary counterrevolution; Powerpoint Metaphysics, a book-length essay on the aesthetics and geopolitics of the "systems" era; and a series of articles exploring liberal grammars of historicity, necessity, and agency. His recent essays are published or forthcoming with Social Studies of Science, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Cultural Anthropology, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Migrant, and several edited volumes and exhibition catalogues.