Elena Adasheva-Klein is an early-career Polar social scientist, anthropologist, and visual artist. She is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University. Her work is situated within humanistic anthropology, at the intersection of philosophical and visual anthropology, and the environmental humanities. Her research brings together phenomenological concepts and ethnographic writing to explore human experiences of the environment. Based on nine months of fieldwork in the Siberian Arctic, her dissertation examines human–environment relations and urban infrastructure in the Far North. She holds an MPhil in Sociocultural Anthropology from Yale University and a B.A. in Anthropology and Studio Art from Hunter College - CUNY where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar.
