Krista Harper, Assistant Professor

Center for Public Policy and Administration / Anthropology
214 Machmer Hall    
(413) 547-0661    
kharper@anthro.umass.edu

Education: Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1999

Research Interests: post-socialist societies, environmentalism and social movements

Krista Harper, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has conducted ethnographic research in Hungary, Portugal, and the United States. Currently, Professor Harper is examining environmental activists in Hungary over the course of the transformation from state socialism. In the future, she will investigate the public health and environmental issues of Hungarian Roma (Gypsies). General teaching and research interests include: environmentalism and other social movements, political culture, post-socialist societies, consumption and advertising, medical anthropology, and public health.

Courses Taught: PUBP&ADM  697V - ST-Qualitative Policy Research