Jessie Fredlund
PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology
I am a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center currently writing a dissertation on the political history of rain in the Uluguru Mountains, a key water catchment area in Tanzania. I’m also a dissertation fellow at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change and an editor at barricadejournal.org.
Social
Academic Interests
Tanzania, environmental anthropology, rain and water, Islam, Pentecostalism, sustainable agriculture, climate change, women and gender, land, kinship
Positions
Writing Across the Cirriculum Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Adjunct Instructor, NYU-SPS, *Non-CUNY
Editorial Collective member, Barricade Journal, *Non-CUNY
Dissertation Fellow, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center
