Kavesh is an anthropologist with a keen interest in ethics, multispecies anthropology, decolonization, the anthropology of Islam, and the geopolitics of present-day South Asia. He is the author of Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan (2021) and the lead editor of Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World (2024). His research has been featured in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Journal of Asian Studies, Oxford Development Studies, and South Asia, among others. His next book project, 'The Ethics of Multispecies Hospitality in South Asia' brings novel insights from philosophy, multispecies anthropology, and South Asian studies to explore what it means to host a more-than-human Other at home. Currently, he is a recipient of the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA), focusing on the use of animals in traditional medicine. For more details about his work, see: https://www.muhammadkavesh.com/