Ocampo-Raeder Gives Invited Lecture at SAIC

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, gave an invited guest lecture, “Forest Childhoods: The Role of Children in the Management of an Amazonian Forest,” at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on October 17. Also, on October 25 she gave the keynote lecture, “Eating Our Way to a Just World: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Food Initiatives,” for Food Justice Summit, on the Carleton campus.

Ocampo-Raeder specializes in environmental anthropology. She is particularly interested in how people manage local resources and how these activities impact different environments. More specifically, her work aims to uncover cultural rules and behaviors that govern resource management practices as well as trace the impact of global conservation and development policies on these systems. Most of her work focuses in Latin America were she has three ongoing fieldsites in Peru (Amazon, Coast, and an Inter-Andean River Valley).  However, she has also worked extensively in different tropical forests and ecosystems around the world, such as Belize, Montana, Kenya, Tahiti.