Meet Logan Emlet ’22!
Logan Emlet is from Coos Bay, Oregon and is currently a Master of Environmental Science Candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. His research attends to food history and politics in western Nepal and is inspired by indigenous, feminist, and (post)colonial studies. In his work, he seeks to trace various ways that people navigate scarcity and abundance, history, precarity, and aspiration in and through diverse forms of agro-pastoral and culinary labor. He’s committed to exploring how material processes, discursive practices, and social relations involved in the production, consumption, and exchange of food shape singular and shared political economic and ecological contests. He aims to situate lifeways across non-postcolonial Himalayan borderlands in relation to global racial capitalism and to tell and teach some of these histories in ways that buttress indigenous environmental governance.

For five years before coming to Yale, Logan lived and did work related to health and agriculture in Vanuatu and Nepal. Though you’ll most likely find him with his nose in a book, he’d rather be swiddening, storying, cooking, or sharing food. He enjoys roasted taro and veg thenthuk.