Charis Ford Morrison Boke

Charis Boke (she/they) is a cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching sits at the intersection of science studies, medical anthropology, and environmental humanities. She co-founded the Rural Rivers Project in 2023 with Sarah Kelly and is currently expanding her research in the rich area where feminist studies of science intersect with medical and environmental anthropological approaches. Funded with a National Science Foundation Award from the Senior Cultural Anthropology and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research programs, with Rural Rivers she studies cultural environments of disaster response and perceptions of responsibility after catastrophic flooding in Vermont in 2023. With her other ongoing research project, Unsettling Herbalism, she is at work on her first book, an ethnography of herbalism, alternative health practices, and healing in the United States. Each of her projects continues her scholarly attention to the interaction of “natural” and “cultural” wellbeing.