About Hedwig A. Waters, PhD
Hedwig A. Waters is an economic anthropologist whose work focuses on the nexus of political economy with concepts of morality, society and gender in Mongolia, publishing on diverse subjects such as consumer debt, the illegal wildlife trade, value(s) in capitalism, populisms, plastic surgery and more.
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Hedwig received her PhD from the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in 2019 with her doctoral dissertation on the interrelation of consumer debt and the illegal wildlife trade in eastern Mongolia. She has since held various visiting and postdoctoral fellowships at UCL, Cambridge University and Leiden University.
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Currently, Hedwig is a Horizon Europe ERA (MSCA Actions) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University, Czech Republic. During her fellowship, she will investigate the sociocultural formation of prices and supply chains within the booming post-Sars-Cov-2 Mongolian medicinal plant market with the project PLANTECON.
Horizon Europe ERA (MSCA Actions) Postdoctoral Fellow, Palacký University, Czech Republic
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PhD in Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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MA in Anthropology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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BA in Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA