Dr. Tracie Wilson

Tracie L. Wilson is a research associate at the Aleksander Brückner Institute for Polish Studies at Martin Luther University in Halle (Germany). Previously she was a research fellow at Leipzig University and a postdoctoral fellow at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studied folklore, ethnography, and communication studies at Indiana University-Bloomington (“Wild Nature”: Globalization, Identity, and the Performance of Polish Environmentalism, 2005). Her research examines environmental debates in central and east-central Europe, especially their intersections with broader discussions of migration, borders, and boundary crossing. Her current project focuses on wildlife conservation, populist discourse, and multispecies interactions/imaginaries regarding grey seals and wolves in Poland and Germany.

RCC Research Project: Once Absent, Now Returned: Narratives of Endangerment and the Reemergence of Charismatic Predators across Polish-German Boundaries 

Selected Publications:

• “Migration, Empire, and Liminality: Sex-trafficking in the Borderlands of Europe. Aspasia.” The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History 11 (2017): 71–96.
• “Unraveling Orders in a Borderless Europe? Cross Border Reproductive Care and the Paradoxes of Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in Germany and Poland.” Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Journal 3 ( 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbms.2017.02.002
• “Animals, Folklore, and Community: Service-learning Perspectives.” In Integrating Service-learning in the University Classroom Sudbury, edited by J.A. Bryant, N. Schonemann, and D. Karpa, 991–105. MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2010.
• “Lessons on EU Accession and the Environment: Conflicting Agendas and the Case of Poland.” Working papers, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Title VIII Alumni Symposium, September 2009. Washington, D.C.
• “Science, Cynicism, and the Greater Good: Identity and Environmental Discourse in Poland.” Anthropology of East Europe Review (Spring 2006): 66–75.
• “A Wilderness Fetish?: Polish Environmentalism and Performance Perspectives.” Communication and the Environment (National Communication Association, Environmental Communication Section), 2005: 239–255.