Faculty Profiles

New Faculty for Fall 2009

Laura Zanotti

Assistant Professor
Anthropology, STON

lzanotti@purdue.edu

Laura Zanotti is a sociocultural anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology. She comes from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she earned her Master's and Doctoral degree in Sociocultural Anthropology. Laura received her B.A. in Anthropology, Sociology, and English Literature at Colgate University.

Laura specializes in environmental anthropology, political ecology, ethnoecology and the anthropology of space and place. Her research is broadly focused on natural resource management policies, conservation and community interactions, mixed market economies, and indigenous livelihoods. Zanotti presently works with the Kayapó, a Brazilian indigenous group, on issues of conservation, gendered uses of the landscape, and resistance strategies. Zanotti is also developing projects with Inupiaq women exploring changing subsistence practices in the Alaskan arctic.




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