I am a political anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. 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.

Before joining Purdue, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies’ Program in Agrarian Studies (2022-2023) and Council on Southeast Asia Studies (2023-2024).

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 co-founder and member of the editorial team for Tea Circle, a multilingual forum for new research on Burma/Myanmar.

Questions? Please write me at ctwittek(at)purdue.edu