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Abigail H. Neely is an Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College's Arts & Sciences School. She holds affiliations with the African and African American Studies Program and the Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society. Her work bridges political ecology, health studies, and science & technology studies with a regional focus on Africa. Neely employs mixed methods including ethnography, participatory GIS, and archival research to examine human-environment interactions and the socio-cultural dimensions of development initiatives.
- Education:
- A.B., Princeton University
- M.Sc., Oxford University
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Her research explores how local practices (e.g., agricultural choices, healing rituals) influence and are shaped by state policies and global development frameworks. She critically examines the intersections of non-human actors like crops, microbes, and witchcraft with institutional frameworks through lenses of feminist methods and postcolonial theory. Recent work analyzes the uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across U.S. geographies and the role of ancestral beliefs in South African healthcare systems.
Neely's courses include interdisciplinary offerings like Black Consciousness and Black Feminisms and Global Health and Society. She contributes to Dartmouth's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and actively publishes on themes of health equity, spatialized inequality, and decolonizing methodologies.
