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Heidi Hausermann
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About
Heidi Hausermann employs mixed methods to address research questions spanning health and environment interaction, resource politics, agroecology and livelihoods. Her research investigates the complex conditions under which landscapes change, and ensuing socio-environmental ramifications. She then examines how outcomes of land-use change (from agricultural shifts and disease to new decision-making processes) are unevenly experienced among different groups of people. She also is interested in diverse understandings and practices of (ill)health and care.
Current projects in Ghana focus on alluvial gold mining, Buruli ulcer (a necrotizing skin infection), Bui Dam, and build from eight years of dissertation research with Mexican coffee farmers. She draws from political ecology, feminist theory, Indigenous scholarship and accounts, development studies, and medical anthropology to frame her research.
Her research always builds from community engagement and concern and has been funded by Fulbright, National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and Rutgers University’s Office for Global Advancement for International Affairs.