Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor in Anthropology at Rice University. Her research investigates how infrastructure transforms amid energy and climate change-related challenges. Her latest book, Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019), focuses on the construction of renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures in the United Arab Emirates, more specifically concentrating on the Masdar City project. Currently, she is completing a second book project provisionally titled All of the Above: A Global Future of Energy, which analyzes how energy infrastructure shapes South-South relations.

Dr. Günel finished her PhD in Anthropology at Cornell and has served as Cultures of Energy Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University (2012-2013), ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at Columbia University (2013-2016), and Assistant Professor in Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona (2016-2019). Her articles have been published in Limn, Ephemera, Engineering Studies, Public Culture, Anthropological Quarterly, The Yearbook of Comparative Literature, The ARPA Journal, Avery Review, PoLAR, Log, e-flux, Perspecta, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. She has contributed to edited volumes, such as Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary (Lars Müller, 2016), Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (Punctum Press, 2019), The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress (NYU Press, 2019), Frontier Assemblages (Wiley, 2019) and Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (Reaktion Books, 2021). She is one of the editors of Limn and most recently co-edited Limn 11 - The Obsolescence Issue.

Dr. Günel co-authored "A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography" (2020) and co-leads Patchwork Ethnography. The book Patchwork Ethnography is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press in 2026.