Logan Emlet

Logan Emlet is interested in mobility, magic, margins, and especially food. His doctoral research centers on changing patterns of mobility, agropastoral production, kinship, and food-related exchange in northwestern Nepal to understand how these processes and associated practices produce and reproduce values and relations across multiple margins. He received a master’s in environmental science from the Yale School of the Environment in 2022 for a thesis investigating produced geographies of scarcity, development magic, and the implications of the coronavirus pandemic in Dolpo, Nepal. Logan spent 2022–23 on a Fulbright in Dolpo, growing barley, looking after livestock, and drinking tea. Prior to coming to Yale, Logan worked for two years each in Nepal and Vanuatu, as well as one year as an intercollegiate debate coach in Washington state. He likes walking up big hills, roasting taro, and most fruit.