Dana Graef
Dana Graef is a combined Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation research examines the intersections between environmentalism and agrarian change in Costa Rica and Cuba, with an emphasis on indigenous agricultural practices, the development of organic agriculture, and histories of environmental resistance. Graef participates in interdisciplinary research groups focused on human ecology, environmental anthropology and agrarian studies. She holds an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University, where her work examined the impacts of large dams and the Inter-American Highway.