Anne Browning-Aiken
Program Manager, Environmental Policy
& Community Collaborration

Anne Browning-Aiken joined the Udall Center in August 2000 as a postdoctoral fellow. She is part of a team assessing the potential utility of a water-basin model to be used in water-resource planning and water-rights disputes. She is investigating the historical context of water rights disputes in the Gila and Salt River areas and determining the main issues and trends in the Arizona General Stream Adjudication settlements. Her goal is to identify the social, cultural, and economic issues that Native American and other water stakeholders consider essential to the construction of a Gila Basin model and to determine how those stakeholders might use the model.

Browning-Aiken completed her doctoral program in cultural anthropology with a focus on the Southwest in December 2000. A UA Dean's Fellow, she has done fieldwork in Sonora, Mexico, and has written a dissertation on the impact of economic policy changes on the lives of people in the mining community of Cananea, Sonora. She has worked on projects related to infrastructure development, food security, and the role of gender in development in Mexico, the American Southwest, Albania, and Egypt. She is also interested in how labor and organizational management in the borderlands are shaped by changing development policies and by U.S.-Mexico financial aid and political diplomacy.

Recently Browning-Aiken facilitated regional environmental planning efforts in the San Pedro Basin and the preservation of historical documents for borderlands researchers. She is currently supporting the organization of a San Pedro watershed association in Sonora, Mexico, and facilitating the sharing of information and watershed planning between the Sonoran and Arizona portions of the San Pedro Basin. Her environmental education program, ECOSTART, has been awarded a Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) Border Pact Grant. This grant will enable teachers from Cananea and Naco, Sonora, to attend GLOBE environmental education workshops, revise their science curriculum to reflect a community focus on the San Pedro River, and to exchange classroom visits and field trips with their Arizona counterparts along the San Pedro River.

In addition to her work at the Udall Center, Browning-Aiken has presented numerous papers on development issues, political ecology, social memory, and labor conflict at local and regional conferences in the United States and Mexico. She also has extensive teaching experience, including curriculum planning and supervision of teacher interns.

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