Rebecca Hardin has worked since 1988 in and on the equatorial forests of Central Africa, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as an anthropologist. Her research focuses on social relations of forest use in the Sangha River region, where Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Congo meet. Her Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology is entitled: "Translating the Forest: Tourism, Trophy Hunting, and the Transformation of Forest Use in Central African Republic" (Yale University 2000). Her postdoctoral research projects focus on health issues as they relate to environmental management practices in mining and logging concessions in Central African Republic and the Republic of South Africa.

Before joining the faculty here in Ann Arbor she was a lecturer in Anthropology at Yale University in New Haven, a visiting professor in Political Science at the Sorbonne in Paris, and an assistant professor of Anthropology and Environment at Mcgill University in Montreal. She was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies for the academic year 2005-2006. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the School of Natural Resources and Environment.

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