Dr. Adam Henne

Office: Anthropology 115

Dr. Henne received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2008. He is a cultural anthropologist with a joint appointment in Anthropology and specializes in Latin American issues.

Dr. Henne did his fieldwork in Chile with environmentalists, foresters, scientists, loggers, and labor and indigenous activists. His dissertation was titled "Making Good Wood: Technologies of Value and the Forest Stewardship Council in Chile." The Forest Stewardship Council is an international NGO that supports sustainable forestry through third-party certification - they provide the green seal of approval for 'good wood.' It's a values-based market incentive system, not unlike organic food or Fair Trade coffee. The question is, how do they decide what makes 'good' forestry? That standard is negotiated by people with competing interests and unequal access to resources, who also come to the table with very different ideas about what kinds of knowledge are appropriate for managing forests - or even what a 'forest' is.