Dr. VanValkenburgh, whose Ph.D. is from Harvard, was most recently a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Vermont. He conducts archaeological research in Peru at the Proyecto Arqueológico Zaña Colonial, and is a specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and ceramic analysis.

Dr. Besky is jointly appointed in Anthropology and the Watson Institute of International & Public Affairs. Dr. Besky’s Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin, and she was most recently at the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Her book The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (California, 2014) won the 2014 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize.  

We are also fortunate to have with us from 2015-17 both Anila Daulatzai, the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Gender Studies, and Dana Graef, a Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities, who is jointly appointed in Anthropology and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.

Dr. Daulatzai, who holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, conducts research on widows, war, and humanitarianism in Afghanistan.

Dr. Graef, whose Ph.D. is from Yale’s combined program in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies, researches conservation in Costa Rica and sustainable agriculture in Cuba.