Kip Grosvenor Hutchins is a cultural anthropologist, currently working as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Oberlin College. His research examines the relationship between music and the environment, especially in post-socialist Mongolia and southern Appalachia. 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.

His first book, A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia, will be published by the University of Arizona Press in October of 2025. In this ethnography, Hutchins presents cases in which Mongolian musicians use their cultural heritage to imagine and work toward environmentally-entangled futures beyond the destruction of capitalism and climate change.