Cameron Hu is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University, following fellowships in Vienna and Berlin. He received a PhD in Anthropology from University of Chicago, where his dissertation received the 2022 Daniel F. Nugent Prize in Historical Anthropology. He is a scholar of technoscience, capital, empire, environment, and social theory.

His ongoing projects include Knowing Destroying, an historical ethnography of extractive science and planetary counterrevolution; Powerpoint Metaphysics, a book-length essay on the aesthetics and geopolitics of the "systems" era; and a series of theoretical articles exploring liberal grammars of historicity, necessity, and agency. His recent work is published or forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology, Social Studies of Science,  Society and Space, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and several edited volumes.