Rate My Professor Brandon Lundy

His research interests encompass economic anthropology, sustainable livelihoods, artisanal alcohol, ethnoeconomics, transnational labor migration, indigenous conflict management strategies, and political ecology, with a focus on West African contexts such as Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde. Lundy has edited or co-edited five books, including Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies: Global Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2014) and Teaching Africa: A Guide to the 21st-Century Classroom (Indiana University Press, 2013). Key publications include “Contested Values of Grogue in Cabo Verde” (Economic Anthropology, 2024), “The Effectiveness of Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in Localized Contexts” (Cross-Cultural Research, 2022), and “Cashews in Conflict: The Political Ecology of Guinea-Bissau’s Cashew Pomiculture” (2022). Among his honors, he received an NSF Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Award (2023–2026, $313,827) for a project on artisanal alcohol in Cabo Verde, participated in Fulbright-Hays in Senegal (2016), served as a Fulbright Specialist in Guinea-Bissau, and acted as U.S. State Department country specialist for Guinea-Bissau. Lundy frequently delivers presentations nationally and internationally and directs student research trips to West Africa.