Mehmet Baris Kuymulu is a PhD candidate in Cultural
Anthropology at the City University of New York
Graduate Center and a fellow of The Center for Place,
Culture and Politics. His research interests include
global inequality, political ecology, neoliberal
globalization, Caribbean transnationalism and social
theory. He is currently looking at neoliberal
productions of nature by examining the political
conflict and capitalist competition between tourist
industry-backed nature conservation initiatives and
the bauxite mining industry in the tropical forests of
Cockpit Country, Jamaica.
At Brooklyn College, where he has been a Graduate
Teaching Fellow for four years, he teaches urban and
transnational anthropology, ethnographic practice,
and the anthropology of race, in addition to
introductions to anthropology and sociology.