Logan Emlet is a student in the combined PhD program in Anthropology and the Environment. He studies Himalayan food, farming, and provisioning systems – past and present. At present, Logan is in Nepal for two years of ethnographic and ethnoecological research on agroecological expertise, staple grains, local theories of economy, and the dis/integration of regional exchange networks. Drawing from work in ethnoecology, economic anthropology, natural history, and linguistic anthropology, his fieldwork aims to understand what rural people make of farming amidst agrarian exit and ecological unraveling. Logan is interested in the cultural and linguistic mediation of possibility & necessity, diversity & change, and value & variation.
Logan holds a Master’s in Environmental Science from the Yale School of the Environment (2022) and a BA in Philosophy from Whitman College (2014). He was a Fulbright Researcher in Dolpo, Nepal from 2022-2023. Prior to coming to Yale, worked for two years in Arghakhanchi, Nepal and two years on Erromango, in Vanuatu. He is from Coos Bay, Oregon.