Australia

Hannah Gould, Australia

Hannah Gould is a cultural anthropologist specialising in death and discarding, material culture, and religion.

She currently works as Research Fellow with the DeathTech Research Team, an interdisciplinary group of scholars examining death, technology, and social change in the twenty-first century, based at The University of Melbourne and Oxford University.

Her work spans the emergence and decline of ritual traditions and technologies of death, the lifecycle of religious materials, and modern minimalist movements.

Hannah holds a MSc Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from Oxford University and PhD Cultural Anthropology from The University of Melbourne. She is the recipient of the Japan Foundation Fellowship, the Dyason Fellowship, and the Rae & Edith Bennet Scholarship, and her work has been published in Anthropological Quarterly, FOCAAL, Journal of Material Religion, and Death Studies.