Kiah Lian Rutz received a Bachelor's degree in Classical Archeology from University College London (UCL) in 2016 and a Master's degree in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2019. She has been writing her dissertation at the University of Zurich since 2022 on the diverse human adaptations and reorientation to climatic changes, i.e. the disappearance of snow and winter, in the Surselva Valley.
Materialities of Obsolescence: A Study of Snow, Seasons and Changing Conditions in the Swiss Alps