Bio

Sasha Tycko is an anthropologist, photographer, and filmmaker. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Bowdoin College. She received a PhD from Emory University in 2026 and a BA from the University of Chicago in 2015.

Sasha's current research focuses on the Atlanta forest at the center of the conflict over “Cop City,” where she integrates ethnographic research and a visual art practice to explore how people politicized the history of the landscape—once the site of a city prison farm and antebellum plantation—reigniting a long American struggle over land, property, and the state. Through this work, she has produced two films, "Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest" (2023, 40 min.) and "Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work" (co-directed with Marion Lary, 2023, 12 min.) and a photography exhibition, “Ways of the Atlanta Forest" (2025, Institute 193). Her writing and photography have been published in n+1, TSQ, Jewish Currents, Mergoat Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, and elsewhere. Her essay "Not One Tree" (co-authored with Grace Glass, 2023, n+1) was awarded the Krause Essay Prize from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.