Dr. Kristin VanderMolen

I graduated from the University of Georgia Department of Anthropology in 2015, and currently I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada. At DRI I work collaboratively with social and physical scientists to conduct basic and applied climate research in the Western United States. The research focuses on the development of climate tools and information to aid natural resource managers, farmers and other stakeholders in land-management decisions. With a strong emphasis on the usefulness of those tools and information for decision-making, the research is deliberately co-produced, responding directly to the needs of stakeholders and involving them throughout the research process.

Dr. Brent Vickers
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2015. Currently, I work for in the Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., which is a department within the National Center for Health Statistics , a division within the Center for Disease Control. The Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) conducts question evaluation studies in order to test and develop survey questions. QDRL staff design, conduct, and lead studies to isolate and define patterns of question interpretation, types of response error, and potential for bias in cross-national or cross-cultural populations. These evaluation studies inform survey managers and data users what constructs the survey questions are capturing, thus allowing them to better interpret survey estimates

​Dr. Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha


​Prof. Ana Luiza Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade FEEVALE and a long time collaborator at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, where she is the project co-coordinator for the online Image and Visual Effects database. She specializes in visual anthropology and has won many awards for her ethnographic documentaries. She joined us at the HECLab for six months in 2018. Her sabbatical was dedicated to finishing her research project entitled "Ethnographies of environmental conflicts: Resilience and urban water management in the context of modern societies". We look forward to continuing our research collaborations and student exchanges. 
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​Dr. Cornélia Eckert

​Prof. Eckert is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, where she specializes in visual, urban, and environmental anthropology and is the editor of Revista Eletrônica Iluminuras Revista Eletrônica Iluminuras. She is also the project co-coordinator for the online Image and Visual Effects database. She spent 6 months with us during 2018, working on her research project entitled "The City and Memories of Environmental Crises". Her visit marked another experience of the HECLAB/UFRGS anthropology partnership, which includes professor and student exchanges. 

Dr. Pedro Paulo de Miranda  Araújo Soares


​Dr. Soares received his Ph.D. from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and is currently a post-doc back in his hometown, at the Universidade Federal do Pará, in Applied Social Sciences. He spent a year with us as he was writing his dissertation "Environmental Memory in the Una Basin: An Anthropological Study of Urban Transformations and Public Politics of Sanitation in Belém. He specialized in the areas of Political Ecology and Urban Anthropology. 

Dr. Nayara dos Santos Egute



​Dr. Egute received her Ph.D. at the Universidade do São Paulo from the School of Public Health in 2014. She spent four months with us finalizing the analysis and writing her dissertation "When the Water Rises: Adaptive Capacities of the Residents of Jardim Pantanal".