Dr. Kiran Asher

A biologist-turned-social scientist and a two-time Fulbright-Nehru fellow, Kiran Asher‘s interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching is grounded in over three-decades of field-based research in Asia and Latin America on wildlife conservation, international development, and struggles for social change.  From 2013-2015 she worked for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor, Indonesia. Her publications include Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands (Duke University Press, 2009), and articles in Antipode, Feminist Studies, GeoForum, and elsewhere.   She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass, Amherst and working on a book entitled Fieldwork: Nature, Culture, and Gender in the Age of Climate Change.