People
Heather O'Leary
Assistant Professor
- Curriculum Vitae
- CRESCENDO Project | Director
Contact
Office: Davis 239
St. Petersburg Campus, Davis Hall
(SW stairwell through Reception 287 doors)
Phone: 727-873-4156
Email
Bio
Dr. Heather O鈥橪eary champions citizen engagement for sustainable urban development. Her research interests include transnational disparities related to women鈥檚 rights, water politics, urbanization and the environment. She regularly presents on these topics at national and international anthropology conferences and works with governance institutions like the OECD to find social-science solutions.
O鈥橪eary was a Wenner-Gren and a Fulbright Fellow in India, where she has traveled and performed ethnographic research in Hindi for more than a decade. She speaks Hindi and Urdu, having received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Award from United States Department of Education. She researches how sustainable development plans in coastal cities can be more inclusive. She is an active leader member of many respected anthropology organizations, including presently serving on the executive committee for the International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and the steering committee of the World Anthropological Union.
education
- M.A., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Additional Roles
- Head of the Council of Commissions & Chair, Commission for Anthropology and Environment
- Head of the Council of Commissions & Executive Committee Member
- Steering Committee Member |
- Affiliated Faculty at: Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; Women's,&n