Anthropologist Andrew Flachs joined the Junior Research Group “Agrarian Alternatives” as a Volkswagen postdoctoral fellow. He received a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University with a dissertation on indigenous knowledge amongst farmers planting genetically modified cotton and organic cotton in Telangana, India. His research interests include environmental anthropology, epistemology, and ethnobiology.
Andrew's work has been recognized by five national awards, including most recently the Political Ecology Society's Eric Wolf Prize and the American Anthropological Association's Robert M. Netting award for research in agriculture. Besides collaborating with JRG “Agrarian Alternatives” until 31 May 2017, Andrew will teach the advanced seminar “Political Ecology of Alternative Agricultures” this winter term for students in the MATS and MA anthropology.