Dr. Jennifer Lee Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her research examines complex human-environment interactions at the confluence of ecological, economic, and socio-political transformations. As an engaged ethnographer, Johnson works alongside residents – in eastern Africa, where she has conducted long-term fieldwork since 2007 and in the US Midwest, where her work has only just begun – to improve lives and livelihoods.
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