Erica Bertolotto
Born in Torino, Italy, Erica Bertolotto grew up speaking Italian and English. During high school, she spent a year as an exchange student in Rhode Island. The following fall she enrolled at UNH, and this spring she will graduate with a degree in political science and international affairs. A sophomore year program in Costa Rica led to an internship in Nicaragua—and she added Spanish to her list of languages. Next year she will go to England to begin an M.A. program for development studies. After that she would like to work and continue her studies in Nicaragua.
Professor Joe Lugalla
Professor Joe Lugalla has been in the UNH Department of Anthropology for about twelve years. His areas of special interest are medical anthropology and sociology along with the sociology of development. He does research on issues of poverty and development, including HIVAIDS. When Erica could not pursue her research on child labor in Kenya as originally intended, Professor Lugalla helped her adapt and carry out her project in Tanzania. He has assisted and mentored many previous IROP students. Erica’s experience, he says, made him even more aware of the real difficulties in stamping out child labor: “It’s no good to make rules and regulations prohibiting certain practices without offering viable alternatives to them.”
Read Erica Bertolotto’s research article, The Cultural Context of Research: Child Labor and Daily Life in Tanzania >>
