Savannah Schulze is a Limited Term Lecturer at Purdue University in the College of Liberal Arts. Her research specializes in mountain gorilla conservation, displacement conservation, community conservation, global environmental governance, political ecology, and collaborative methodologies. As a PhD candidate, her work investigates how displaced Batwa communities renegotiate their cultural identities and relationships with forest gorillas in response to global conservation governance, gorilla tourism, and local management practices in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and surrounding regions of southwestern Uganda. Savannah collaborates with the Remis Research Group, led by Dr. Melissa J. Remis, to explore innovative approaches to studying the human-ape nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa. She commenced a 15-month dissertation fieldwork starting in October 2016 and actively shares insights through her research blog. Her focus on the impacts of global environmental policies on indigenous communities underscores her commitment to integrating conservation efforts with local cultural dynamics.