Hello, and welcome!

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My name is Hannah Kass. I am a joint Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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My research focuses on the relationship between state repression and enclosure in struggles for food, land, and abolition. I also examine how eco-defenders and abolitionists prefigure alternative life-worlds beyond and against property, resource grabbing, and authoritarian statecraft.

 

Blending autoethnographic research as a criminalized forest defender with state and movement document analysis, my doctoral dissertation explores my research interests in the context of the Stop Cop City/Weelaunee forest struggle: an autonomous and decentralized movement fighting deforestation for the development of a militarized police training facility in DeKalb County, Georgia.

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This website is my portfolio, hosting information about my research, teaching, media collaborations, and artwork. My CV is available upon request.

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In addition to academic research, teaching, and collage art, I am an avid improv comedian, strength athlete, and mushroom cultivator.