Stephanie Spehar

Stephanie Spehar is an anthropologist, educator, and mother whose work focuses on sustainability, human-environment relationships, and climate justice. For over two decades she has done research and community-based work on primate ecology and conservation in Indonesia and Latin America, taught and published broadly in anthropology and environmental studies, and led multiple interdisciplinary research and education initiatives focused on understanding how both human and more-than-human life can thrive on our shared planet. She also works with several climate justice and labor organizing collectives and organizations to support internationalist, grassroots, and anticolonial approaches to addressing climate change and other social-environmental issues. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She is also a member and outgoing co-president of United Faculty and Staff of Oshkosh, a local of the American Federation of Teachers.