Kevin Burke is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research addresses how the cultural politics of forest science shape forms of environmental governance. His dissertation research was an ethnographic study of industrial pine plantations across the US South and the sciences that manage these plantations. This research concerns questions about environmental futures, the politics of science and technology, and the governance of land. His current project is a study of ghost forests, which are landscapes characterized by the synchronous mass death of trees due to climate change. This project, which is funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, focuses on the histories and ongoing politics of landscape management along the eastern seaboard of the United States.