Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019). In 2026, she will publish two books: Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press) and Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide (University of Chicago Press).