Political ecology and community based resource management; environmental and cultural sustainability in the Horn of Africa; Post-colonial African state and society relations and agrarian development; forced migration and refugee studies; critical anthropology of development with a focus on postconflict communities

Dissertation research draws on political ecology and the anthropology of place and memory to analyze the long term dynamics of refugee resettlement and state-making in lowlands Eritrea. 

PhD Candidate, Environmental Anthropology

University of Washington, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98144

abp3@u.washington.edu

M.A.      University of Washington, Anthropology, 2003

B.A.       Alfred University, English, Comparative Cultures, 1997