Anand Pandian is a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times, and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, forthcoming from Stanford University Press. A former department chair of anthropology, he serves now as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He also serves as a curator of the Ecological Design Collective, a community for radical ecological imagination and collaborative practice. He lives with his family in Baltimore, where he is currently working on a new book project on decay, waste, and the crafting of ecological futures.