Bri Meyer is a successfully defended Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who will earn her degree in May 2025. She does multispecies ethnography and beyond-human care theory working with the American Saddlebred horse showing community. Her research investigates the uniquely embodied care bonds that equine athletes and their human companions collaboratively create across species. She is also invested in discussions on the accessibility of anthropology and ethnographic writing, and how the “genre” of ethnography relates to and differs from other genres of literature. 

Bri is the 2024-25 managing editor for Edge Effects, a digital magazine affiliated with the Center for Culture, History, and Environment at UW-Madison. She was the 2022-23 Virginia Horne Henry Distinguished Fellow and a University Fellow in 2023-24 and 2017-18.

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Research interests: beyond-human/multispecies anthropologies; care theory; equestrianism studies; environmental studies/anthropology; theories of gender & feminism; anthropology of sport