Shauna LaTosky

Shauna LaTosky is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, (UNBC) Canada. Prior to joining UNBC she worked as a lecturer at Thompson Rivers University and was formerly Director of the South Omo Research Center (Jinka, Ethiopia) and a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle, Germany). LaTosky earned a PhD in Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. Her current research interests gravitate around three different topics: material culture, embodied and visual rhetoric, and Mun (Mursi) cultural and ecological heritage. Since 2018, she has been interested in collaborative research on Indigenous knowledge of edible and medicinal plants and emic understandings of wild plant foods and their cultural and gendered meanings and uses in Southern Ethiopia.