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Biography
Catie is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the the School of Agriculture and Environment (SAgE), and a European Research Council-funded researcher in the "Out of Sight" project led by Don Kulick at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is also undertaking a second PhD in Creative Writing at Curtin University.
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).
Formerly an Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow from 2020-2023, her DECRA project examined rare and heritage breed livestock conservation and agroecological farming in Australia in the climate change era. Her current research focus is the meat processing industry in Australia.
Catie is the co-ordinator of the Ecology, People, Place (EcoPeoPle) network, and an Editorial Board member of Anthropological Forum. She is a former University of Melbourne McArthur Fellow and gained her PhD (anthropology) from UWA in 2011.
External positions
HDR Education Coordinator, University of Notre Dame (Australia)
2017 → 2019
McArthur Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
2012 → 2017
Research expertise keywords
- anthropology of food
- settler studies
- environmental anthropology
- tourism studies
- meat
- hunting
- farming
- identity and race
- belonging
- dietary practices
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 13 Climate Action
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Illness, Identity, and Taboo among Australian Paleo Dieters
Gressier, C., 3 Nov 2017, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 136 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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At Home in the Okavango: White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging
Gressier, C. H., 2015, UK: Berghahn.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Going feral: Wild meat consumption and the uncanny in Melbourne, Australia
Gressier, C., 1 Apr 2016, In: The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 27, 1, p. 49-65 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An Elephant in the Room: Okavango Safari Hunting as Ecotourism?
Gressier, C. H., 2012, In: Ethnos. Online, p. 1-22Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Safaris into Subjectivity: White Locals, Black Tourists, and the Politics of Belonging in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Gressier, C. H., 2011, In: IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER. 18, 4, p. 352-376Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Raising Rare Breeds: Domestication, Extinction and Meat in the Anthropocene
Gressier, C. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
20/01/20 → 19/10/24
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct – but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds alive
17/03/25
1 Media contribution
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Digesting Normality: Why We Need Agro-Ecology
Gressier, C. & Jonas, T.
21/03/23
1 Media contribution
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Perth researcher’s mission to preserve rare farm breeds
15/12/21
1 Media contribution
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Conversations in Anthropology Episode #39 Alex Blanchette and Catie Gressier
2/02/21
1 Media contribution
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