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Alumni Spotlight Spring 2025

Christopher Keller Morris (Anthropology, PhD 2014)

Dr. Morris is an assistant professor of anthropology at George Mason University. A sociocultural anthropologist focused on Southern Africa, his research examines environmental governance, pharmaceutical politics, and post/colonial histories using ethnographic and historical methods. He has collaborated with advocacy groups on land rights activism and resource policies in South Africa. His book, 听(UC Press, 2024), explores how former apartheid 鈥渉omelands鈥 have become sites where international drug profits intersect with contests over land, extractive jurisdictions, and political power. He has published in American Ethnologist, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology Now, and other journals.

Chris Morris in S Africa