Aletta Biersack (BA, U of Michigan, 1965; MA, History, U of Michigan, 1968; MA, Anthropology, U of Michigan, 1970; Ph.D., U of Michigan, 1980) has been a professor at the University of Oregon since 1982. She is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on the culture and history of Pacific peoples, with an emphasis on New Guinea, historical anthropology, political ecology, and gender.  She has published widely on the Ipili speakers of Papua New Guinea.  She is co-editor of Imagining Political Ecology (Duke University Press, 2006) and editor of "Ecologies for Tomorrow" (published in American Anthropologist, 1999), Papuan Borderlands (University of Michigan Press, 1995), and Clio in Oceania (Smithsonian  Institution Press, 1991).  Her research has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society, the University of Oregon, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon.   Contact information: (541) 346-5110.

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