Lab alumni

• Marley Beck (Food for Kids Operations Coordinator)

• Humera Dinar (Assistant professor, anthropology, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan)

• Anitra D. Higgins (Americorps)

• Jehu Laniog (Lecturer, anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University)

• Theoneste Nzaranyimana (Assistant professor, Kentucky State University)

• Newton Nyairo (Assistant Professor, agribusiness and economics, Langston University)

• Vaishnavi Tripuraneni (Assistant Professor, geography and spatial sciences, University of Delaware)

Lab member news

• Environmental Health News, José Becerra

• Purdue University InnovatED magazine, José Becerra

• Sapiens magazine, Saish Solankar

• NPR and the Listening Post Collective, José 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.

We co-develop a lab guide each semester to guide our work.

Recent Lab member publications

• 2024 Tripuraneni, Vaishnavi and Paul Robbins. Credit in agrarian India: narrative policy struggles over farmer surplus. Geoforum. Volume 155, October 2024, 104081.

• 2024 Fahey, Fionna. Book Review: Janelle Lamoreaux’s Infertile Environments. Somatosphere.

• 2022 Curtis, Reese. Food for Local Benefit: Civic Agriculture at the Wea Creek Orchard. Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research. 12(31):121-128.

• 2021 Becerra, Jose. Possibilities for Multispecies Approaches in Coffee Landscapes. Ethnobiology Letters. 12(1):115–118.

• 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).

Recent lab member awards

• 2024 National Geographic Society Research Grant, Kathryn Dix

• 2024 NSF GRFP, Patricia Mathu

• 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 Society for Economic Anthropology Halperin Memorial Fund Award, José Becerra

• 2021 Environmental Fellows Program fellowship, José Becerra

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