Luther College anthropology professor awarded a fellowship in Germany

Luther College Associate Professor of Anthropology Anita Carrasco will be spending six months in Germany.

Carrasco has been awarded a fellowship from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Carrasco will work on writing her book "The Embrace of the Serpent: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life in the Face of Mining," at the Center during her sabbatical year (2018-19) from Luther.

Carrasco joined the Luther faculty in 2011. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and a master's degree in cultural applied anthropology from the University of Arizona, and she earned her bachelor's degree in anthropology from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Christiano in Santiago, Chile.