Lachlan Summers

Lachlan is a writer trained in anthropology. He is interested in people and strange events. His academic work has been published in journals such as Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist and elsewhere, and his essays have appeared in literary quarterlies, architectural reviews and adjacent venues, including Log, Griffith Review, Aeon, and Overland, among others. His research has never been funded, but his writing has won awards from the History of Science Society, the American Ethnological Society, the American Anthropological Association, the Australian Anthropological Society, Longreads, and the Los Angeles Press Club.

In the Department on Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, he works on the research project "Tectonic Plates" with Etienne Benson. He is also writing a book titled "Mexico City is Two Hours from Mexico City," which has been accepted into the University of California Press' Atelier series. He's having an amazing time.

From 2023-2025, Lachlan was a postdoctoral fellow at the MPIWG in the Max Planck Sabbatical Award Group "Time Scales: Historicizing Deep Time," under Professor Sophia Roosth. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2023. While finishing his PhD, he was INTPART Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. Prior to his PhD, he taught at the University of Melbourne.