
Graduate Student
Specialization:
Sociocultural Anthropology
PhD emphases in: Global Studies, Environment and Society
- NGOs
- Haiti
- globalization
- political ecology
- disasters
- climate change
- mixed methods research
- public anthropology
Education:
MA- Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, 2019
MA- Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, 2017
BA- Anthropology, Reed College, 2011
Research:
Heather’s dissertation research is a mixed methods ethnographic study of the ways that local communities in rural Haiti understand and interact with international aid organizations in the context of ongoing disasters.