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Janaki Mohanachandran

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Janaki is a trained ecologist who discovered her affinity for social sciences while working with indigenous communities in the eastern Himalayas for WWF-India. During her five years with WWF-India, she has worked closely with the communities to capture the discrepancies between well-intended conservation interventions and the realities that materialize on ground. She has dabbled briefly with the vast world of traditional ecological knowledge that exists in several traditional informal institutions.

New Article, “Assessing spatio-temporal mapping and monitoring of climatic variability using SPEI and RF machine learning models,” from Ph.D. Research Scholar Saadia Sultan Wahla

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Congratulations to Saadia Sultan Wahla, a Ph.D. Research Scholar whose article, “Assessing spatio-temporal mapping and monitoring of climatic variability using SPEI and RF machine learning models,” which focuses on the Cholistan Desert in Pakisan, was recently published in the Geocarto International Journal. Read the full article here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Article, "Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon," from Ph.D. student Bruno Ubiali and Dr. Miguel Alexiades

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Congratulations to Bruno Ubiali, a Ph.D. student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology, who has recently published the article “Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon.” The article is based on his thesis and co-authored by his Masters’ advisor, Dr. Miguel Alexiades. The study was conducted with forest extractivist rubber tappers (seringueiros) at the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve, in the state of Acre, Brazilian Amazon. 

Brita Lorentzen

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I use dendrochronology, wood anatomy, tree-ring stable isotopes, and wider archaeobotanical methods to investigate human-environment interactions and their long-term impact legacies during the Anthropocene. My recent studies focus on the challenge to articulate a high-resolution chronology appropriate and comparable with the lived histories of the Indigenous village settlements in Northeast North America.

Bruno Ubiali awarded the Halperin Award for Pre-dissertation Research!

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Congratulations to PhD student, Bruno Ubiali on receiving the Halperin Award for graduate pre-dissertation research and travel through the Society for Economic Anthropology! Bruno's project is titled, "What is Productive Land? Indigenous and Farmers’ Cultural Notions of Land in an Agricultural Frontier Expansion." Learn more the Rhoda Halperin Memorial Fund award here.

New article in Canadian Journal of Archaeology from Jonathan Micon and Dr. Jennifer Birch

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Congratulations to PhD student, Jonathan Micon and Associate Professor, Dr. Jennifer Birch, along with Ronald F. Williamson and Louis Lesage, on their new article, "Strangers No More: Kinship, Clanship, and the Incorporation of Newcomers in Northern Iroquoia." Their article was recently published in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology. Learn more about their article here!

Raíssa Nogueira de Brito

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Raissa Nogueira de Brito holds a Ph.D. in Health Sciences (major: Infectious and Parasitic Diseases). Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Georgia (UGA). Raissa has dedicated her efforts to researching Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and other zoonotic, infectious diseases that disproportionately impact disenfranchised people, primarily focusing on the control and surveillance of these diseases.

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