Anna Willow
Anna Willow is ABD in UW-Madison's Department of Anthropology and a lecturer in the University of Wisconsin system. Her dissertation project focuses on the environmental, cultural, and political dimensions of ongoing anti-clearcutting activism among the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people of Grassy Narrows First Nation and is based on field research conducted between 2003 and 2005 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Her research straddles the margins of environmental, political, and applied anthropologies and integrates perspectives influenced by research in the areas of globalization and development, environmental and cultural sustainability, and historical anthropology. Her broad theoretical investigations have focused on the following questions: Why do people undertake “environmental” action? And, more specifically, how can we best conceptualize the relationship between indigenous peoples and the environments they live in and sometimes struggle to protect? Beyond her academic work at Grassy Narrows First Nation, Anna has collaborated with Larry Nesper on Traditional Cultural Property (TCP) consultation with Ojibwe groups in Northern Wisconsin.
