Anthea is an environmental anthropologist studying the transformation and emergence of ecological systems under late-stage capitalism through ethnographic approaches. Her PhD dissertation (see Snowsill, A. 2022. A Tomato of the Floating World: Assembling Inle Lake’s Cultural Ecology) explored these themes through an object-oriented ethnography of tomatoes grown as cash crops on Myanmar’s Inle Lake and their entanglements with ethno-territorial politics, the political economy of tourism, labour politics, and agricultural and environmental concerns.

She is expanding work on these topics to other contexts, which includes recent interdisciplinary research into toxicity and pollution in two of Asia’s largest river basins, the Mekong River Basin and Ganges-Brahmaputra River Basin. She is drawn to collaborative research projects and opportunities, and currently teaches an undergraduate course in Anthropology and Asian Studies.