Kip Grosvenor Hutchins is a cultural anthropologist, currently working as a visiting assistant professor in anthropology, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. His research examines how nonhumans intersect with heritage in post-socialist Mongolia, with a particular focus on musical performance and transmission. He takes a multi-modal and multi-species ethnographic approach, and has been working with musicians, music teachers, herders (and their herds), heritage bearers, and heritage administrators in rural Dundgovi province and urban Ulaanbaatar since 2010.

From the winter of 2016 to the summer 2018 he returned to central and southeastern Mongolia to conduct fieldwork for his dissertation with funding from the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship and the American Center for Mongolian Studies Cultural Heritage fellowship, in conjunction with the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture. His research examines how musicians leverage multispecies networks of relation to open up socialist-style institutions to non-Western forms of musical creation, transforming their structures in local, distinctly post-socialist ways.