Eva Rose Steinberg
Student Fellow
Eva Rose Steinberg is a PhD candidate in the department of cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research examines the politics of purity in agricultural biodiversity conservation and crop breeding, focusing on peanuts. Drawing on work with scientists, breeders, farmers, and seed savers, she asks how they negotiate the tension between stability and adaptability in the face of climate change. In collaboration with the Utopian Seed Project, she is conducting The Mountain Peanut Project, a participatory plant breeding experiment that aims breed locally adapted peanuts for southern Appalachia.
Participating Years
2026–2027
Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle
In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.