Humanist Yearning as Political Epistemology

Inanna Hamati-Ataya is Professor and Chair of Global Political Anthropology at the University of Groningen and Founding Director of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies at the University of  Cambridge. She earned a PhD in Political Science from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and  spent most of her academic career in the United Kingdom, where she developed an interdisciplinary  research agenda around the history and sociology of knowledge, supported by multiple European research grants. Her ongoing projects examine the impact of major knowledge transitions on natural and societal orders in deep time, with a special interest in the intersections of ecological, biological, and  cultural evolution.