Shauna LaTosky

Gender and Women's Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies | Education and Development | Migration and Development | Health and Well-being | International Studies | Rural Health Services | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Health | Sustainability | Anthropology | Conservation | Human Rights | Environment | Community | Education | Migration | Religion | Wildlife | Culture | Farming | Tourism | Ethics | Health | Youth | Anthropology of the body (body modification), East African herding societies, gender, pastoralism and development, Indigenous languages, education and digital literacy, maternal health and well-being, threatened Indigenous heritage, visual anthropology, ethnobotany, Mursi (Mun) agro-pastoralists (southern Ethiopia).

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. As a cultural anthropologist, I am interested in gender and pastoralism, customary land use practices and indigenous cultural heritage in East Africa. Postdoctoral Studies (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology - Department of Conflict and Integration, Halle/Saale, Germany 2012 to 2015) See list of publications. Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Günther Schlee PhD Anthropology and African Studies (2004 to 2010) Dissertation: Predicaments of Mursi (Mun) Women in Ethiopia’s Changing World Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Ivo Strecker MA Interdisciplinary Studies - Anthropology, Environmental Studies and German Cultural Studies (University of Victoria - Centre for Religion and Society, 1998 to 2000) Thesis: Understanding Hutterian Perceptions of Nature: A Life History Approach. Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Peter Stephenson BA Honours, Environmental Studies and German Cultural Studies (University of Victoria, 1991 to 1995) Honours thesis: A Huttrisch-English Dictionary Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Michael Hadley