Emma Kahn

Emma Kahn is a PhD student in anthropology at Brown University. Her work focuses on trajectories of urban planning in the U.S., with particular focus on housing and land use in the American Southwest. She is principally interested in how urbanists contend with the fraught landscapes they inherit and the knotty futures they formulate. Her scholarship draws on her previous work as an affordable housing project manager and a caseworker for detained asylum seekers.