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Our ecological and environmental anthropology faculty explore primate nutrition and conservation, sustainable livelihoods, human ecology, equity, and probe our public discourse to understand how we shape and are shaped by the world around us.
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“Ecological and Environmental Anthropology is one of five signature research strengths in the Department of Anthropology through which we seek to study human diversity through time, expand knowledge of human cultural processes, and address global grand challenges. The ways that we produce our food, the human-wildlife entanglements in our world, the deep history of human-environmental relationships, and even the ways that we talk and think about the environment have profound consequences for our diverse ways of being.”
Faculty and Research Interests
Myrdene Anderson, manderson@purdue.edu
Ethnological Theory, Linguistics, Semiotics, Cognitive Science, Ecology, Systems Theory, Nonequilibrium Dynamics, And Philosophy Of Science. Lapland, Fennoscandia, Circumpolar Cultures, Regions Of Pastoralism And Nomadism, Areas Of High Latitudes And High Altitudes
Andrew Flachs, aflachs@purdue.edu
Political Ecology, Agriculture, Qualitative Methods, Food Studies, Ethnobiology, Alternative Agriculture Including Genetically Modified Organisms And Organic Agriculture, Microbiome, Food Studies, South Asia, North America, Eastern Europe
Stacy M. Lindshield, slindshi@purdue.edu
Primate Behavior, Ecology, Nutrition, Conservation, Hunting, Food Sharing, Tool Use, Biological Corridors, Ethnoprimatology, Predation, Competition, Senegal, Costa Rica
Zoe Nyssa, znyssa@purdue.edu
Expert And Technical Cultures, Environmental/Climate Policy And Practice, Anthropology Of Science And Technology, Applied Anthropology, Organizational Strategy, Future Making, Global Challenges, Computational And Mixed Methods, Epistemology And Ethics, Risk
Melissa Remis, remis@purdue.edu
Africa; Central African Republic, Biological Anthropology, Primate Ecology and Behavior, Human Ecology, Nutrition, Conservation Biology, Hunter-Gatherers, Environment, Sustainable Development, Ecology, Wildlife, Gender
Kali Rubaii, jrubaii@purdue.edu
Anti-colonial and feminist security studies, ecologies of war, death and temporality, anthropology of material things, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, corporate accountability, health justice, Middle East
Laura Zanotti, lzanotti@purdue.edu
Feminist Political Ecology, Feminist Science Studies, Space And Place, Decolonizing And Collaborative Methodologies, Digital and Visual Anthropology, Discard Studies, Communities And Conservation
