Cara Jacob
- Ph.D. Student
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Specialization: Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change through the Center for Gender in Global Context
Contact
Baker Hall
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cara-jacob-b687a7101
Research Interests
Water Insecurity
Gender
Anthropology of Infrastructure
Environment and Development Studies
Urban Studies
Feminist Political Ecology
Structural Racism
Medical Anthropology
Power/Expertise/Knowledge Production
Biographical Info
Cara is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology with a focus on urban water insecurity in the global North. She completed her B.A. in Anthropology, with a minor in Religious Studies at the College of Wooster, Wooster, OH in 2015. She then worked for two years as the Research Coordinator for a non-profit focused on women's economic self-sufficiency in Cincinnati, OH, before beginning her graduate career at Michigan State University. She obtained her M.A. in Anthropology in 2020, while working towards her Ph.D. Her research interests include intersectional and feminist approaches to the study of the natural and built environment (infrastructure) as well as the use of community based participatory-research methods.
Current Research Projects
Urban Water Insecurity and Lead Contamination in Milwaukee, WI
Publications
2021– Dr. Lucero Radonic, Cara Jacob. Cracking the myth of universal water security in the Global North: An examination of household labor over ‘safe’ water. Water Alternatives 14(1): 60-78.
2021 – Dr. Lucero Radonic, Cara Jacob, Dr. Rowenn Kalmann, and Yvonne Lewis. It’s a sprint not a marathon: A case for building short-term partnerships for CBPR. Qualitative Methods.