Amy E. Stambach

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Profile Articles Activity

Professor Amy Stambach is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines the production and mobilization of environmental knowledge. Her anthropological work began with studying Tanzanian education programs designed to build a post-colonial and post-socialist national citizenry. That work led to her interest in U.S. evangelical religious groups' involvement in providing education to students in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and, more recently, to the study of China-Africa educational programs as seen from the perspectives of Tanzanian, Kenyan, and Rwandan university students and higher education professionals.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Geographic, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost's Office, Prof. Stambach is currently studying the social, political, and economic contexts shaping diverse understandings of the environment, health, and climate change. She uses the UN Sustainability Development Goals, governmental and vernacular archives, and ethnographic field research as points of entry into a comparative study of U.S. private sector investments in education, agriculture, health, and real estate in South Africa and Tanzania. The ultimate goal of her work is to leverage anthropological knowledge to gain insight into problems facing U.S. and international institutions and local communities.

Experience

• –present Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education

• 1996 University of Chicago, Social-Cultural Anthropology

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