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Email

tkohn@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Anthropology
School of Social and Political Sciences
Education
PhD
University of Oxford
Masters (Coursework & Research)
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of California - Berkeley
ORCID

0000-0002-1071-4168

Prof Tamara Kohn

Professor in Anthropology
School of Social and Political Sciences

108 Scholarly works
7 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Do-It-Yourself Commemoration of the Dead
  • 2021

    Book

    Sounding Out Japan: A Sensory Ethnographic Tour
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003086741
  • 2021

    Book Chapter

    Decay, Rot, Mould and Resistance in the US Prison System
  • 2019

    Journal article

    An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan
    DOI: 10.1353/anq.2019.0008
  • 2019

    Research Grant

    The Future Cemetery
  • 2019

    Book

    Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429456404
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Disposal of the Dead: Beyond Burial and Cremation
Tamara Kohn

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
Institute for Advanced Study - Fellow - Oct-Dec 2018 Durham University, UK
2018
Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
2010
G.E.M. Scott Award for Excellence in Teaching University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    On disrupted death rites and covid-19
    DOI: 10.1353/anq.2024.a936103
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    The Dead Who Would Be Trees and Mushrooms
    DOI: 10.51952/9781529230161.ch012
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Representing alkaline hydrolysis: a material-semiotic analysis of an alternative to burial and cremation
    DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2023.2174838
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Reimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech
    DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2023.2276308
  • 2024

    Editorship

    The Disruption and Regeneration of Death During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • 2022

    Book Chapter

    Chapter 1 Being in Sound: Reflections on Recording while Practising Aikido and Shakuhachi
    DOI: 10.1515/9781785334542-004
  • 2022

    Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

    We need to Rethink How we Manage Death-care
  • 2021

    Book Chapter

    Kiseikanri sareru oto: Tōkyō to Fukushima [Controlled Sound: Tokyo and Fukushima]

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