{"id":2871,"date":"2024-11-19T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:23:44","slug":"dr-luisa-cortesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/dr-luisa-cortesi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Luisa Cortesi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Environmental Anthropology, Disaster Studies, Environmental Sciences of Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
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Luisa Cortesi (dual Ph.D., Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Yale University, with distinction) is an environmental anthropologist who studies how people know about, and adapt, to water disasters, a process that involves technologies and infrastructure, as well as institutions and social differences. Her work intersects with science and technologies studies, the environmental sciences of water, development studies, the environmental humanities, South Asian studies. She is Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Sciences, Erasmus University; Marie S. Curie Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies; Affiliate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Cornell University. She has been Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies and Anthropology, as well as Atkinson Fellow in Sustainability, at Cornell University, USA (2018-2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Cortesi\u2019s work has been awarded the 2019 Field Prize for \u201cpoetic and literary\u201d scholarship, the highest honor for graduate dissertations at Yale, the (2017-2018) for \u201chigh academic standards\u201d based on a national competition amongst graduate students of any discipline in the U.S.A.; the 2017 Eric Wolf Prize for \u201cadvancing the field of political ecology\u201d; the 2017-2018 biennial PRAXIS Applied Anthropology Award for \u201coutstanding achievement in translating anthropological knowledge into action\u201d; and the 2016 Curl Essay Prize by the Royal Anthropological Institute for \u201cthe best paper relating to the results or analysis of anthropological work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-IIE, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Josephine de Karman Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, MacMillan Centre, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, The Tropical Institute, the European Union. Luisa has served as a water expert for the United Nations, and continues to support several NGOs in India and in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has founded and leads the Water Justice and Adaptation LAB, a new platform for collaborative work between scientists and communities on water-related environmental justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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