Hiskia Akuupa, MA

Hiskia Akuupa is a PhD candidate in social and cultural anthropology as well as a research assistant on the project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies,” investigating how environmental transitions impact the moral development and well-being of children amongst the Jun/’hoansi San in Namibia. He holds an MA in English and applied linguistics from the Namibia University of Science and Technology specializing in sociolinguistics. He is also interested in cultural studies, was part of a research team that conducted a study about female initiation at Olufuko festival in Namibia, and has been a language teacher for eight years.

Dissertation Project

From the Bush to the Classroom: A Cross-Environmental Ethnographic Study of Moral Socialization Among Jun/’hoansi Children in Namibia