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Katie Foster

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Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Katie Foster is a postdoc with the Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN) in the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and Department of Anthropology.  Her current research examines equity, risk, and trade-offs in natural infrastructure development for water management challenges (e.g., drought, flooding, sea level rise) in the US. 

She is a member of Don Nelson's Humans and Environmental Change Lab.

 

Katie is also an alumna of the Integrative Conservation and Anthropology Ph.D. program and Laura German's Institutions & Governance Lab at the University of Georgia. 

Her dissertation research explored the intersections of Indigenous rights policy and environmental governance in Peru. This work combined ethnographic, institutional, and policy analyses to examine how policy at the international level gets transformed or "translated" as it gets implemented at lower levels of governance, and the implications of these transformations on local peoples and ecologies. 

 

Research Interests:
  • Environmental Justice
  • Political Ecology
  • Environmental Governance
  • Human Rights 
Selected Publications:

2021     W. DePuy, J. Weger, L.C. Foster, A. Bonanno, S. Kumar, K. Lear, R. Basilio, and L. German. (2021) Environmental Governance: Broadening Ontological Spaces for a More Livable World Environment and Planning: Nature and Space, 1-29.

2020     L. German, A. Bonanno, L.C. Foster, and L. Cotula. (2020) “Inclusive Business” in Agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains. World Development 134: 105018, 1-21.

Grants:

2021      National Science Foundation - DDRIG ($25,000)

2021      Fulbright-Hays – DDRA ($23,550)

2021      Social Science Research Council - IDRF ($14,500)

2021      US Dept. of Education - FLAS ($7,500)

2020      US Dept. of Education - FLAS ($7,500)

2018      UGA - Innovative & Interdisciplinary Research Grant ($1250)  

2018      UGA - Willson Center for Humanities Grant ($1000)   

2018      UGA - Rhoades Pre-Dissertation Research Grant ($750)     

2018      UGA - LACSI Summer Research Grant ($1250)

2017      UGA - LACSI Summer Research Grant ($1000)   

2017      UGA - Graduate School Summer Research Grant ($950)     

Education:

Ph.D. 2023 - University of Georgia, Athens, GA (Integrative Conservation & Anthropology)

B.A. 2012 - Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX  (Animal Behavior & Environmental Studies)
 

Articles Featuring Katie Foster

Katie Foster (L) and Cydney Seigerman (R) are among the distinguished individuals recognized for their outstanding contributions by the University of…

Congratulations to PhD candidate, Katie Foster, on her 2021 Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertations Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship! The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time…

The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program awarded PhD candidate, Katie Foster, a 2020 IDRF Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W.

Walker DePuy, Katie Foster, Suneel Kumar, and Kristen Lear, along with co-authors Jacob Weger, Anya Bonanno, Raul Basilio, and Laura German, receive the J. Peter Brosius Integrative Conservation Research Award for their paper, “Environmental…

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