Amanda Logan, associate professor of anthropology at Weinberg, has been named to the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
The program supports scholars who have demonstrated exemplary work in the fields of social sciences and humanities, targeting those who are specifically tackling generational issues. Awardees receive grants up to $200,000, with the expectation that the funds will go toward a major study or piece of writing.
Logan’s current research primarily focuses on understanding how food insecurity in Africa originated and uses data “to construct alternative narratives of underdevelopment and agricultural achievement.”
As a Northwestern faculty member, Logan is a part of Weinberg’s African studies and environmental policy and culture programs. She has also published multiple journal articles based on her work and a one book titled, The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana.
According to Logan,
“The Carnegie award will allow me to expand my research on the environmental history of food security to multiple sites across the African continent spanning the last millennium. This is important, because so much of what we know about food security is rooted in just the last few decades — a long-term view makes visible the strategies African farmers and cooks used to weather some of the most significant climatic, economic and political shifts the world has ever seen.”
Learn more in Northwestern Now’s article, “Anthropology professor named 2022 Carnegie Fellow.”