Emily Hayflick

About   

Emily Hayflick's research is centered on the entanglements of American legal frameworks, conservation programs/wildlife management, and multispecies relations. Her doctoral research on US federal regulations for salvaging birds explores how postmortem protections shape human-bird relations. This research builds on her master's work on the language of the Alaska Native arts and crafts exemption within the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Her research sits at the intersections of anthropology, art history, and settler colonial studies, and draws on frameworks from environmental and historical anthropology and material culture studies.

Emily is currently an anthropology PhD candidate at Cornell University, and holds a BA in anthropology from Barnard College and an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center. In 2024, she was a Conservation and Justice Fellow at the American Bird Conservancy. She has previously worked as a Repatriation Specialist at the Field Museum in Chicago, and completed internships with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the National Museum of the American Indian in DC.

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During her fellowship with the American Bird Conservancy, she produced a StoryMap that contextualized the Search for Lost Birds' documentation standards. She has also contributed to the Newberry Library's Collection Essay Resources.

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Outside of academia, Emily enjoys baking (challah and sourdough bread), hanging out with her cat, and learning new fiber art techniques.