Dr. Jamie Haverkamp (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at �ֲ���ý College. She is also an Affiliate with the Institute of Behavioral Science at CU Boulder for 2024-2025. Broadly, her research seeks to better understand the ethical and political dimensions of climate resilient development and adaptation planning (in various project forms). Haverkamp’s research agenda centers a care-based participatory praxis to working with�����Ի����ڴǰ���frontline climate justice communities and engages with a variety of critical theories and anticolonial approaches including environmental/climate justice, racial capitalism, political ecology, de/coloniality and Indigenous studies to better understand the process of adaptation to climate change and climate justice. Her current research program is grounded primarily within Latinx and Indigenous contexts and includes: (1) long-standing ethnographic and participatory research with agropastoralists of the Peruvian Andes who are adapting to rapid glacier melt; (2) ethnographic engagement within the UNFCCC process, specifically with the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP); and (3) new research on care-based climate adaptation among Latinx farmworkers in the U.S. Haverkamp’s regional expertise are in Latin America and the U.S; and she has disciplinary training in anthropology, human geography, and visual journalism.

Haverkamp is on academic leave for the 2024-2025 academic year for supported work towards the completion of an ethnographic manuscript centering research the illuminates how the coloniality of power works through climate resilient development and advances Indigenous and agrarian teachings �ڴǰ���adaptation otherwise. 

Research interests (tags):
Climate Adaptation, Environmental/Climate Justice, Political Ecology, Post-/De-coloniality, Feminist Geographies, Latinx & Indigenous Studies, Environmental Anthropology, Decolonial methodologies

Select Publications:
Haverkamp, J. (2024). Chapter The De/Coloniality of Global Climate Governance and Indigenous Politics within the UNFCCC.

Hite, E., Haverkamp, J., & Joshi, C. (2024). Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in) justice in global climate governance arenas. Climate and Development, 1-7.

Ranco, D., & Haverkamp, J. (2022). Storying indigenous (life) worlds: An introduction. Genealogy,��6(2), 25.

Haverkamp, J. (2021). Collaborative survival and the politics of livability: Towards adaptation otherwise. World Development,��137, 105152.

Haverkamp, J. (2021). Where’s the love?: Recentring Indigenous and feminist ethics of care for engaged climate research. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement,��14(2), 1-15.

Teaching
ENVR341 Political Ecology of Climate Change
ENVR335 Indigenous Ecologies
ENV231 Climate (In)justice
ENVR219 Disasters and Displacement
ENVR417 Practicum in Community Engaged Research

As a human geographer, Prof. Pieck is broadly interested in how various forms of nature (e.g., “cultural landscapes” or “biodiversity”) are produced, how they become meaningful to different groups of people, and how they are governed, by whom, and to what end.

Research

In the past, she has examined these issues by exploring the transnational alliances between Amazonian Indigenous groups and US environmentalists and by studying NGO mobilization strategies against regional integration and mega-infrastructure projects in Peru.

Her most recent research has taken her back to Germany, her country of origin, where she investigated the history and environmental politics of the Green Belt, an ecological corridor and protected area crafted from the remains of the Cold War inter-German border that once separated socialist East Germany from capitalist West Germany. In her book, (MIT Press, 2023), she is particularly interested in the complex and mutual entanglements of emergent ecosystems and historical memory. In landscapes marked by war, militarization, and trauma, she argues for a conservation praxis productively situated between land care and curation, between ecological principles and historical memorialization, and between expertise and community participation. Her work ultimately advances a vision of conservation that is sensitive to the landscape’s past while being collaborative, empathetic, and more deeply acknowledging of the interlacing between humans and the places they inhabit.

Appearances

Discussion of the book on the October 2023.

on “History, Memory, and Heritage in the Age of Ecological Crisis” in Seoul, Korea (begins at 2:26:00). June 2024.

Excerpts from a (in German) with the Thuringian Ministry of the Environment (Thüringer Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Naturschutz) about my research. August 2024.

at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities. September 2024.

: “Death Strip to Green Belt: Memory and Conservation in Germany.” December 2024.

Book presentation and roundtable discussion at . June 2025.

Keynote lecture at the , “History & Memory: Ethical Dimensions.” August 2025.

Teaching

Prof. Pieck is a recipient of �ֲ���ý College’s Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her courses, from the introductory to the upper levels, broadly cover the environmental social sciences and range across the Global North and South. Course descriptions can be found in the College Catalog.