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Alyssa Paredes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She specializes in environmental economic anthropology, with research interests at the intersection of industrial agriculture, transnational supply chains, and environmental litigation in the inter-Asian region. Her fieldwork focuses on the Philippines and Japan, examining the effects of banana plantations in the region of Mindanao. Dr. Paredes holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University and is currently working on her book project titled "Bananapocalypse: Plantation Capitalism in the Philippine South," which investigates the environmental and social impacts of plantation capitalism. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the Anthropology and Environment Society’s Bonnie J. McKay Junior Scholar Prize in 2021 and the Culture and Agriculture Robert M. Netting Prize in 2018. Her teaching includes courses on anthropological theory and comparative studies of cultures.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science