PhD Candidate Biological Anthropology
she/her/hers
Matriculated September 2018
Research Interests
Ethnoprimatology; orangutan behavior; applied conservation; environmental justice
Website
https://cherylknott.wordpress.com/students/post-doctoral-associates/
About
Laura Brubaker-Wittman is a doctoral student in the Biological Anthropology program at Boston University. Her doctoral research focuses on the human-nonhuman primate interface by using the mixed methodology of ethnoprimatology, incorporating theories and techniques from cultural and biological anthropology. Specifically, her work asks questions about how orangutans and humans interact and co-exist in landscapes that have been shaped by human disturbance and what this means for orangutan health and behavior. Ultimately, she hopes her work can bring together science, conservation, and environmental justice to help protect orangutans and support local communities at the same time.
Awards & Grants
- BU Women’s Guild Award. (Fall 2023)
- Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2023)
- Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2022)
- Southeast Asian Language Council (SEALC) and Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) Language Tuition Support Award, paid for two semesters of online Bahasa Indonesian online courses at University of Wisconsin – Madison. (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Summer 2021).
- Fulbright US Student Program grantee to Indonesia. (awarded Spring 2021, and used Fall 2022).
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grantee. DECLINED. (Spring 2021).
- Long-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) (awarded Fall 2021, and not used until Spring 2022).
- ICONE. (Summer 2020).
- Women and Gender Studies Summer Fellow. (2020).
- Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2020).
- Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2019).
- Boston University Dean’s Fellowship. (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2022).
Publications
- forthcoming