Hampshire College

Betsy Hartmann, professor of development studies and director of the Population and Development Program, received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

She is a longstanding activist in the international women’s health movement.

Her research and teaching focus on the intersections between population, migration, environment and security issues.

She is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control and The Truth about Fire, a political thriller about the Far Right. She is the co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the recent anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties.

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Professor Hartmann will be on sabbatical leave for the spring 2012 semester.

Affiliations
Population and Development Program
School of Critical Social Inquiry

Recent Courses
Rethinking Security in an Age of Climate Change (Spring 2011)
Interrogating Fear: Bioterrors the Environment and the Construction of Threats (Fall 2010)
Framing Climate Change: Race Gender Inequality and the Future of the Environment (Spring 2010)