Heather O'Leary

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences

Organization: University of South Florida

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Minnesota

• Society and Resource Disparity (Water, Food, Energy, Waste) 
• WaSH, Multiscalar Water Security, Quality, and Quantity
• Urban and Development Anthropology 
• Gender and Intersectional Justice
• India and South Asia
• Hindi, Urdu, French language abilities

Subject Areas:
Climate, Economics, Education/Communication, Social/Cultural/Institutional

Selected Publications

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  O'Leary, Heather. (2019). Conspicuous reserves: Ideologies of water consumption and the performance of class. Economic Anthropology, 6(2), 195-207. doi: 10.1002/sea2.12150
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  O'Leary, Heather. (2018). Pluralizing Science for Inclusive Water Governance: An engaged ethnographic approach to WaSH data collection in Delhi, India. Case Studies in the Environment, . doi: 10.1525/cse.2017.000810
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  O'Leary, Heather. (2017). Epistemological Undercurrents: Delhi’s Water Crisis and the Role of the Urban Water Poor. Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices, and Locales, , 154-168. doi: 10.4324/9781315543161
• O'Leary, Heather. (2016). Between stagnancy and affluence: Reinterpreting water poverty and domestic flows in Delhi, India. Society & Natural Resources, 29(6), 639-653. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2016.1150534
• Garrick, Dustin and O'Leary, Heather. (2015). "Chapter 4: Pathways to Water Security" Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. Oxford: University of Oxford.
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  O'Leary, Heather. (2015). Producing Middle-Class Waterscapes Beyond Middle-Class Thresholds: Domestic Workers and Identity Expression through Water Allocation in Lower-Class Delhi, India. Newcastle-on-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.