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Kathryn Anderson
PhD Student: Sociology and Environment and Resources
CHANGE Fellow
Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
University of Wisconsin-Madison
kganderson@wisc.edu
Kathryn Anderson is pursuing dual PhDs in Sociology and in the Environment and Resources program of the Nelson Institute. She is co-advised by professor Chris Kucharik in SAGE/Agronomy and Katherine Curtis in Sociology. Anderson is a National Science Foundation CHANGE-IGERT Fellow studying the social factors (culture, institutions, and markets) that influence current agricultural systems, and the implications of these systems for environmental and social stratification outcomes. In the Yahara Watershed, Anderson plans to integrate sociological processes of farm consolidation and rural demographic shifts into ecosystem services models of various future land use and climate scenarios being developed by Kucharik and collaborators. She also is working with a Portuguese team to evaluate the effectiveness of EU agro-ecological payments to protect threatened bird species in the Castro Verde region of Alentejo.
Anderson comes to SAGE with a BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University, an MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics from UW, and research experience at the RAND Corporation in California, the United Nations in Bolivia, and IPEA (Institute for Applied Economic Research) in Brazil. Most recently, she worked as an economics researcher for the North Temperate Lakes LTER, where she did non-market valuation projects of lake amenities and worked on bio-economic modeling of aquatic invasive species spread.
In her free time, Kathryn tries to play fiddle and frisbee, work on her house, and travel to Portugal, where her fiancée is from.
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