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Erin Fitz-Henry is an Associate Professor in Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University obtained in 2010 and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. Her academic career at the University of Melbourne began following her doctoral studies, progressing from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and then to Associate Professor in 2023. She serves as Discipline Chair of Anthropology and Development Studies and is Co-Convenor of the Politics and Policy stream in Melbourne Climate Futures. Fitz-Henry's research examines multispecies justice, the rights of nature movement, environmental rights tribunals, slow violence, petroleum politics, energy sovereignty, Sumak Kawsay, and decolonizing personhood, with a primary focus on Ecuador. Her ethnographic work explores battles over legal animism in the rights of nature framework, corporate personhood challenges by energy companies, and the temporalities of nonhuman others in environmental contexts.