Email

HRansdell@um.edu.mo

Tel

(853) 8822 2585

Office

E7-1015

Consultation Hours

by appointment

Henrietta Kate RANSDELL

Education

  • Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, concentration in Sustainability , University of Louisville, USA
  • Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Louisville, USA
  • Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of Louisville, USA
  • Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability, University of Louisville, USA

  • Fulbright Grantee, English Teaching Assistant at Chachoengsao Technical College, Thailand 
  • Ameri-corps, Archeological Intern, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, National Park Service, USA
  • Co-Founder, Cardinal Cupboard Food Pantry and Food Recovery Network, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • Executive Director, Engage Lead Serve Board, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
  • GIS Technician, Urban Forestry Division of Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation, USA

Engaged Pedagogy:

-[Chapter In-Review] Storey, A. D., and Ransdell, H. K. (~2026). “These systems will provide their own lessons”: University reuse programs as sites of material care and educational praxis. Ethnographies of Second-Hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care. American Anthropological Association.

-Storey, A. D., Clemens, A., Cora, M., Eckel-Sparrow, H., Hurst, D., Martinez, P., Ransdell, H. (2022). Peer Teaching on Repeat: Reflecting on Time in Shared Pedagogical Praxis. Collaborative Anthropologies, 14(2), 77-90.

-Storey, A. D., Eckel-Sparrow, H., & Ransdell, H. K. (2021). Cultivating student agency and responsibility through peer-to-peer teaching. International Journal for Students As Partners, 5(1), 97-106.

Cultural and Natural Resources Preservation:

-Ransdell, H. K. “Souls cannot rest in contested places”: An ethnographic case study and archeological environmental assessment of the North Shore Cemeteries.” (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations.

-Ransdell, H. K. (2025, March 26). “Inequity Post-Mortem, A Student Panel on Necropolitics”. [Panel Organizer, Moderator, and Participant]. Annual Meeting for the Society of Applied Anthropology. Portland, Oregon.

-Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cultural Resources: Archeology. (2021). National Park Service Roadside Barrier Construction Archeological Report.

Sustainability and City Planning:

-Gaughan, A., Storey, A. D., Heberle, L., Krauser, L., & Ransdell, H. K. (2024, Oct.). “Quality Enhancement Report to the Louisville Metro Climate Action Plan.” Louisville Metro Government & the University of Louisville.

-Ransdell, H. K., et al. (2024, Mar.). “Priority Climate Action Plan: Louisville KY-IN MSA.” Louisville Metro Government.

Professional Affiliations

  • Society for Applied Anthropology
  • American Anthropological Association
  • Fulbright Alumni Network
  • University of Louisville Sustainability Council

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Recipient
  • Princeton in Asia Fellowship, University of Macau
  • Fulbright Grantee, Chachoengsao, Thailand
  • Peteet Award of Excellence in Anthropological Scholarship, USA
  • Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, Academic Paper of the Year