Heidi Hausermann

Heidi Hausermann, PhD, was trained as a geographer and political ecologist and uses interdisciplinary approaches and mixed methods to understand landscape change, disease dynamics, contamination, and food systems. She utilizes feminist and geographic approaches to research and knowledge production. Current projects examine the local fate of mercury vaporized from small-scale gold mining in Ghana and edible insects and coffee agroecosystems in Veracruz, Mexico.

Heidi’s lab has long-term international collaborations with faculty at University of Mines and Technology (Ghana), Universidad Veracruzana (Veracruz, México), Instituto de Ecología (INECOL, Veracruz, México), and Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP). Heidi also works closely with rural communities in the development and implementation of research objectives.

A faculty member in Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability, Heidi teaches graduate courses in feminist methodologies, environmental racism, and writing for environmental justice.