Emma is trained in history and anthropology and her work won the University of Chicago's Daniel F. Nugent Prize for the best dissertation in historical anthropology. Her research has been funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec.
She does research on land and property, animals and their diseases, and the way people make sense of themselves and the world under increasingly unruly conditions. She is primarily interested in separatist states like Texas and Québec.
She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at William and Mary.
Before that, she was at Aarhus University.
She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2024.
Originally, she is from Montréal.
You can click here to find her writing.
You can also email her at em.g.pask at gmail.com!