Aletta Biersack
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Phone: (541) 346-5110
Email: abiersac@uoregon.edu
Aletta Biersack is a cultural anthropologist specializing in Pacific basin peoples with a focus on political ecology, historical anthropology, gender, kinship, and local/national/global dynamics. She has published widely on these topics with respect to the Ipili speakers of Papua New Guinea, and has also published on Tongan history and culture. She is co-editor of Reimagining Political Ecology (Duke U Press, 2006) and editor of “Ecologies for Tomorrow” (American Anthropologist special issue, 1999), Papuan Borderlands (U of Michigan Press, 1995), and Clio in Oceania (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991). Her research has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society, the University of Oregon, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, UO. She is presently researching several mining situations in Papua New Guinea for the purpose of comparing their stabilities and volatilities.
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