Annika Ericksen

Annika Ericksen (PhD) is a cultural anthropologist whose interests include climate/environmental change and challenges to rural livelihoods. She first visited Mongolia as a Peace Corps volunteer and later received Fulbright and ACMS fellowships for her ethnographic research on nomadic pastoralism in a Gobi Desert district of Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia. Over the past 10 years, she has taught anthropology and environmental studies courses at the college undergraduate level.