Biography

Dr. Muhammad Kavesh is a FAS Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus. His book Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan (Routledge 2021, part of “Multispecies Anthropology: New Ethnographies” series) examines how human-animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society. He is also a co-editor of a special journal issue for The Australian Journal of Anthropology (Dec 2020) on “Sense Making in a More-than-Human World.” Kavesh’s current postdoctoral project examines the ethics of governing more-than-human life in contemporary South Asia through the case of “spy” pigeons.