My Biography
Nora Haenn, Ph.D., teaches Anthropology and International Studies at North Carolina State University. Her scholarship focuses on the culture and politics of international migration, environmental management, and economic development. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and she is a three-time awardee of the Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellowship. She is the author of Marriage after Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico (2020) which traces the pleasures and dangers of family life that drive international migration, and Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent (2005) which explains rain forest conservation from the standpoint of the rural people most impacted by environmental protection efforts. Her research and other writing has been published in scholarly journals, edited collections, newspapers, and blogs, including Current Anthropology, Conservation Biology, World Development, The Conversation, and the Raleigh News and Observer.