Don Kulick

Don Kulick is a linguistic anthropologist at Uppsala University whose research and writing is often centered on people and other beings who are vulnerable—socially and politically, epistemologically and ontologically—and how that vulnerability is a productive force that prompts unexpected understandings and often-surprising reconfigurations of power. He leads a multidisciplinary research programme funded by the Swedish Research Council to better understand vulnerability in people, animals and the environment.

His books include Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes and A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea. He is co-author of Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement and Language and Sexuality.

Kulick, who earned his PhD in anthropology from Stockholm University, was previously on the faculty of the University of Chicago and NYU.