Lab alumni
Anitra D. Higgins (Americorps)
Theoneste Nzaranyimana (Assistant professor, Kentucky State University)
Humera Dinar (Assistant professor, anthropology, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Jehu Laniog (Lecturer, anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University)
Marley Beck (Food for Kids Operations Coordinator)
Newton Nyairo (Assistant Professor, agribusiness and economics, Langston University, Langston, OK)
Lab member news
Purdue University InnovatED magazine, Jose Becerra
Sapiens magazine, Saish Solankar
NPR and the Listening Post Collective, Jose Becerra
The Farmer Learning, Agriculture, Culture, Humanities, and Social science laboratory is an interdisciplinary space where students at all levels can gather in a supportive environment to discuss issues across a range of questions in environmental anthropology. This is a space to discuss ongoing research projects including undergraduate private readings, preliminary data collection, and PhD dissertation work. Lab members discuss new research, workshop methodologies, practice talks, and develop communication strategies for their career goals.
Recent Lab member publications
2024 Fahey, Fionna. Book Review: Janelle Lamoreaux’s Infertile Environments. Somatosphere. <link>
2022 Curtis, Reese. Food for Local Benefit: Civic Agriculture at the Wea Creek Orchard. Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research. 12(31):121-128. <link>
2021 Becerra, Jose. Possibilities for Multispecies Approaches in Coffee Landscapes. Ethnobiology Letters. 12(1):115–118. <link>
2021. Solankar, Saish, Anuj Shinde, Shubhankar Desphande. Interspecific Amplexus Between Uperodon mormorata (Rao, 1937) (Anura: Microhylidae) and Minervarya Sp. (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. (118). <link>
Recent lab member awards
2024 Environmental Fellows Program, Brandy Le
2024 Society for Applied Anthropology Student Endowed Award, Fionna Fahey
2024 Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellow, José Becerra
2024 SEEKCommons Fellowship, José Becerra
2023 UNH-EPA Sustainability Fellowship, José Becerra
2023 National Geographic Explorer award, José Becerra
2023 Society for Visual Anthropology undergraduate student award for outstanding work, Saish Solankar
2023 Society of Ethnobiology Undergraduate Ethnobiologist Award, Saish Solankar
2022 Ford Foundation Honorable Mention, José Becerra
2022 SfAA Involuntary Resettlement Award, José Becerra
2022 College of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Talk (3rd prize), Saish Solankar
2021 Halperin Memorial Fund Award, José Becerra
2021 Environmental Fellows Program fellowship, José Becerra