I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University and a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. I received my PhD in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University in 2022. My research on the New Yangon City project—a 20,000-acre urban expansion at the margins of Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)—lies at the intersection of critical scholarship on three global transformations: uneven urban development, the growth of speculative investment, and the rapid expansion of digital and networked technologies.

My work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays program. I am also a member of the editorial team for Tea Circle, a multilingual forum for new research on Burma/Myanmar.

Questions? Please write me at courtney.wittekind(at)yale.edu or ctwittek(at)purdue.edu