Author

Gretchen Bakke

1 book, mostly cultural social issues, for Audible Studios for Bloomsbury, 2016

Gretchen Bakke is a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work explores social, cultural, and technological change. She is the author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future (2016), an accessible account of the history and transformation of the U.S. electrical grid, and The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society (2020). Her writing combines anthropology with studies of energy, infrastructure, technology, and environmental transition.