Dominic Boyer


Dominic Boyer is an American-born cultural anthropologist, writer, filmmaker and podcaster whose work focuses on relationships between energy and environment, media and politics.
He is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, where he served from 2013 to 2019 as the Founding Director of its Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences.

Teaching and research

Boyer served as co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology from 2015 and 2018 and was recognized for his commitment and leadership in Open Access scholarship, including participating on the Executive Committee of the Libraria collective. Together with his partner, Cymene Howe, Boyer produced and co-hosted two hundred episodes of the environmental humanities podcast series, “Cultures of Energy.” Also with Howe, he produced and co-directed a documentary about Okjökull the first Icelandic glacier to fall victim to climate change, Not Ok: A little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world. In August 2019, Boyer and Howe organized the installation of a memorial to Okjökull, an event that was widely covered by the international news media.
in 2019, Boyer was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin.

Books

Boyer is the author of several books: