Stephanie Postar

Dr Stephanie Postar is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research focuses on energy, natural resources, and environmental governance in the Global South, particularly in Tanzania. She holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and previously served as a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her work investigates the intersections of mining, conservation, and development in sub-Saharan Africa through a feminist political ecology lens. Current projects include studying uranium refining in Tanzania and the role of Tanzanian scientists in shaping atomic energy knowledge. This research is funded by the British Academy.

Key outputs include co-editing Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries in Resource Knowledge and Practice (Rowman & Littlefield, planned 2022) and publishing in Geoforum and The Extractive Industries and Society. She co-led a MATRIX Prospecting Team at UC Berkeley analyzing pandemic impacts on resource-extracting communities.