Emily Yates-Doerr

Emily Yates-Doerr is an anthropologist at Oregon State University whose work covers food studies, medical anthropology, and the social study of science. For about twenty years she has studied nutrition and public health in Guatemala. Her current research examines nuclear history and cultural memory in South Dakota, where her father grew up. She was named a 2025-26 research fellow at PRAx for her project 'Nuclear Stories from America's Atomic Heartland.'