Björn Reichhardt was a Visiting Fellow at the CSSM in spring 2024.
Björn (he/him) was at the time a PhD student in social anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he studied pastoral milk fermentation and infrastructural development with a regional focus on Mongolia and Central Asia. His dissertation is focused on how rural populations in Mongolia navigate post-socialism as a condition of chronic crisis by looking at multispecies and socioeconomic relationships as embedded in pastoral and capitalist modes of generating growth.