Jessica Barnes’s research examines the culture and politics of resource use and environmental change. Her publications include Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt (Duke, 2014), Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change (coedited with Michael Dove, Yale, 2015), and Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Duke, October 2022). She is currently developing a new project on air pollution in London.