EDUCATION
Ph.D., Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Yale University
M.Phil., Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Yale University
A.B., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
BIO
Dana J. Graef is an environmental anthropologist with training in the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. She has held interdisciplinary fellowships at Brown University and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at the University of Maryland. While living in Rhode Island, she also wrote a column for the online magazine, SAPIENS, that communicated anthropological perspectives on climate change to public audiences. She has designed and taught courses on environmental and social justice (University of New Haven), and on the anthropology of climate change, environmentalism and the politics of nature, and what it means to be green (Brown University). Graef holds a combined Ph.D. in Anthropology & Environmental Studies from Yale University, and an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University. Her doctoral work examined shifting intersections between agriculture, development, and environmentalism in Costa Rica and Cuba. She has published articles and essays on wildness, resistance to transnational mining, and interdisciplinary facilitation practices. She is also a published poet and creative writer. Graef was recognized with a notable mention in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018.
Keywords: agriculture; sovereignty; climate change; environmental justice; Latin America; interdisciplinarity
RECENT PUBLICATION
Graef, D. J., Motzer, N., & Kramer, J. G. (2021). The value of facilitation in interdisciplinary socio-environmental team research. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 3(2), 109-113.
Osterhoudt, S., Galvin, S. S., Graef, D. J., Saxena, A. K., & Dove, M. R. (2020). Chains of Meaning: Crops, commodities, and the ‘in-between’spaces of trade. World Development, 135, 105070.