Brondo, Keri (kb3588)

Ph.D., Anthropology, Michigan State University, Concentration in Culture, Resources, and Power; Certificate in Latin America and Caribbean Studies and Graduate Specialization in International Development

B.A.. Anthropology, Minor: Philosophy, University of Delaware

Research Areas: Environmental anthropology; feminist theory and methodologies; critical development studies; extraction; land grabs and technologies of erasure; critical conservation studies; multispecies voluntourism; ecological grief, resurgence and the politics of pain and joy; environmental education; applied and engaged anthropology; Central America. 

Books

Vivanco Luis A. and Keri Vacanti Brondo. Nature, Culture, and Environmental Sustainability:  Anthropological Perspectives. Wiley-Blackwell Press.  (In press for 2026).

Bolles, Lynn A., Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo (eds.). Anthropological Theory for the 21st Century: Thinking with the Canon. Toronto University Press. 2022.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration: Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Critical Green Engagement Series. University of Arizona Press. 2021. *Winner of the 2022 Ed Bruner Book Prize, American Anthropological Association’s Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism Tourism & Finalist for 2023 Society of Economic Anthropology Book Prize.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings. Oxford University Press. 2017/2020.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance. University of Arizona Press. 2012.

Sampling of Articles

Brondo, Keri Vacanti.  “There is Nothing to Celebrate”: Gender, Communal Land Titling, and the Paradoxes of Indigenous Rights for Honduran Garifuna.  In Bernard Perley’s (ed.) Remediating Cartographies of Erasure: Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Pages 125-148. 2025.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Land Grab. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. Lee Baker. New York: Oxford University Press, June 20, 2025. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com. 2025.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Reflections on a Critically-Applied Anthropology of Conservation and Tourism Field School in Honduras’ Bay Islands.  Annals of Anthropological Practice.  DOI: 10.1111.napa.12232. 2025.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Suzanne Kent, Josely Turcios, Kat Robinson, and Alveena Nadeem. Transforming Vulnerability Studies: Local Knowledge and Environmental Education in the Bay Islands, Honduras. Human Organization. 82(2): 95-106. 2023.

Emily, Brunson, Keri Vacanti Brondo, Toni Copeland, Doug Henry, and David Himmelgreen. It’s Not Just Academic: The Importance of Program Development in Applied Anthropology Education. Special Issue: Innovating Applied Anthropology Education. Annals of Anthropological Praxis. 45(1): 57-66. 2021.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Entanglements in Conservation: Utila's Emerging Economy of Affect. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 27(4): 590-627. 2019.

Kent, Suzanne and Keri Vacanti Brondo.  “Years Ago the Crabs was so Plenty:” Anthropology’s Role in Ecological Grieving and Conservation Work.  Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. 42(2): 16-24. 2019.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Entanglements in Conservation: Utila’s Emerging Economy of Affect.  Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 27(4): 590-627.  2019.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti.  “A Dot on a Map”: Gender, Communal Land Titling, and the Paradoxes of Indigenous Rights for Honduran Garifuna. Political and Legal Anthropology.  41(2): 185-200. 2018.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti, Suzanne Kent, and Arleen Hill. "Teaching Collaborative Environmental Anthropology: A Case Study Embedding Engaged Scholarship in Critical Approaches to Voluntourism." In Toni Copeland and Francois Dengah (eds.) "Involve Me and I Learn:" Teaching Anthropology and Research Methods in the Classroom and Beyond. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 40(2): 182-195. 2016..

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. The Spectacle of Saving: Conservation Voluntourism and the New Neoliberal Economy on Utila, Honduras. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 23(10): 1405-1425. 2015.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Linda Bennett. Career Subjectivities in American Anthropology: Gender, Practice, and Resistance.  American Anthropologist. 114(4): 598-610. 2012.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. When Mestizo Becomes (Like) Indio...or is it Garifuna?: Negotiating Indigeneity and 'Making Place' on Honduras' North Coast. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 15(1): 171-194. 2011.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Practicing Anthropology in a Time of Crisis: 2009 Year in Review. American Anthropologist 112(2): 208-218. 2010.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. When Mestizo Becomes (Like) Indio…or is it Garifuna?: Negotiating Indigeneity and 'Making Place' on Honduras' North Coast. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15(1): 171-194.  2010.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti. Garifuna Women’s Land Loss and Activism in Honduras. Journal of International Women’s Studies. 9(1): 99-116. 2007.

Brondo, Keri Vacanti and Laura Woods. Garifuna Land Rights and Ecotourism as Economic Development in Honduras’ Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area.”  Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 3(1): 2-18. 2007.