Professional Summary
Professor and Director, School of Environment and Sustainability
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Collaborator + mentor + researcher. Zanotti is the Professor and Director of the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEaS). Zanotti has more than two decades of experience as an interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Peoples, and Local Communities to cultivate sustainable livelihoods and well-being. Specializations include: collaborative, transdisciplinary projects and creating mixed methods ethnographic teams. Dedicated to opening and transforming the academy and providing undergraduate and graduate students generative experiences to thrive in the multicultural and interconnected world in which they live, play, and work. Pronouns: she/her/hers. Zanotti is also currently serving a two-year term as a councilor for the National Sustainability Society, and is President-Elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.
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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2712-4284
Education
PhD: University of Washington Seattle, WA, (Anthropology)
MA: University of Washington Seattle, WA, (Anthropology)
BA: Colgate University Hamilton, NY, (Anthropology, English/Creative Writing)
Publications
Published Books
Zanotti, Laura (2016. ) Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods .Tucson , University of Arizona Press.
Keywords
Sustainability + Feminist Political Ecology, Media + Environment, Indigenous Rights, Global Environmental Governance, Environmental Justice, Visual and Sensory Methodologies, Collaborative Research and Praxis, Climate Change, Critical Data Studies
Other Information
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