Catie GRESSIER

Catie Gressier is a cultural anthropologist, who has spent the past 20 years conducting qualitative research exploring foodways, tourism, and health and illness in Australia and southern Africa. Catie is the author of three books: Saving Heritage Breeds: A Love Story (UWAP 2025); Illness, Identity and Taboo among Australian Paleo Dieters (Palgrave 2018); and, At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging (Berghahn 2015). She is currently a European Research Council (ERC) funded researcher in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University, Sweden, a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Curtin University, Australia, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Western Australia. Catie coordinates the Ecology, People, Place (EcoPeoPle) research network and is an Editorial Board Member of Anthropological Forum. She gained her first PhD from UWA in 2011.