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Laura Zanotti

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Promoted to Professor
Department of Anthropology

lzanotti@purdue.edu

Laura Zanotti completed a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology at University of Washington and a B.A. at Colgate University. She joined the faculty at Purdue in 2009. She is Associate Director of the Center for the Environment at Purdue and is affiliated with the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the American studies and Latin American and Latino studies programs. 

Dr. Zanotti is an environmental anthropologist and interdisciplinary social scientist whose research program partners with communities to better understand how local, mostly rural, livelihoods and well-being can be sustained for future generations. In addition to environmental anthropology, she finds kinship with decolonizing approaches to research inquiry alongside insights from cultural geography, Indigenous studies, and Latin American studies.  

Zanotti has received multiple research grants and awards from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Center for the Environment, and the Purdue Policy Research Institute. Her publications include Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues between State and Tradition, American Anthropologist, and World Development.