Hannah Kass is a joint PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies’ environment and resources program. She holds a BA in anthropology and sociology from Mount Holyoke College and a master of environmental studies with an individualized concentration in political agroecology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on anarchist and abolitionist approaches to food sovereignty movements and land struggles, and how they prefigure alternative life-worlds beyond and against land grabbing and authoritarian statecraft. Blending autoethnography with discourse analysis of state and movement documents, Hannah’s dissertation explores her research interests in the context of the Stop Cop City/Weelaunee forest struggle: an autonomous and decentralized movement fighting deforestation for the development of a militarized police training facility in DeKalb County, Georgia.