Dr Sarah Besky is the Charles Evans Hughes 1881 Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. From 2012-2015, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. She received a PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
Her areas of interest are: labor, environment, commodities, agriculture, plantations, ethical trade, gender, development, Himalayas, India, environmental justice and ethics.