Kat Hill’s research and creative work will focus on the interrelated stories of human and non-human actors in the landscape and on more-than-human kinships. Rooted in her work on communities, landscapes, environmental futures and local histories, she will be working on a series of creative outputs which explore the temporalities, lives and entanglements of specific beings in this place, from the mountains to the flowers, the birds to the stars. She asks what it matters to engage in ways of living that are attuned to the rhythms of seasons, of day and night. She is also interested in exploring the question of futures and sustainability, including threats to pastoral traditions and rural landscapes. Drawing on research resources such as archives, almanacs and maps, as well as her own practical experience in the landscape, she will ask what may be lost if landscapes and ways of knowing the world disappear. Kat’s interest in communities will include outreach to local residents and heritage institutions in surrounding rural areas.

Kat Hill is an author & researcher based in the Highlands of Scotland. Her work focuses on questions of landscape, people, and heritage in various contexts from the bothies of the Scottish Highlands to non-conformist religious communities such as Mennonites in Europe, America and the Global South. She is the author of books Baptism, Brotherhood, and Belief: Anabaptism and Lutheranism, 1525-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter (William Collins, 2024). She currently works as a freelance writer and is a fellow at the IAS in Princeton. She is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and a European champion.
https://www.kathill.co.uk

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