Heather Randell

@heatherrandell.bsky.social

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Associate professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Sociologist/demographer studying the health impacts of climate change and dams, with a focus on Brazil and East Africa. https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/heatherrandell

The Twin Cities River Rats waterskiing group doing the Tinkerbell ballet line
Twin Cities River Rats doing a waterskiing pyramid on the Mississippi River.
Conceptual model linking dam-induced displacement and resettlement to water security.
My new article in World Development: Hydropower development, resettlement, and urban water security: Evidence from Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
Hennepin county primary results. Flanagan at 64%.
Me and my husband with our I Voted stickers.
A muskrat nibbling on some plants in Lake Harriet.
711 Qualitative Perspectives on Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health Holly Hummer University of British Columbia
307 Qualitative and Anthropological Methods in Demographic Research Heather Randell University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
DFL-endorsed candidates on my ballot: Peggy Flanagan DFL Endorsed for U.S. Senate lhan Omar DFL Endorsed for U.S. Congress Amy Klobuchar DFL Endorsed for Minnesota Governor Keith Ellison DFL Endorsed for Minnesota Attorney General Steve Simon DFL Endorsed for Minnesota Secretary of State Zack Filipovich DFL Endorsed for Minnesota State Auditor Omar Fateh DFL Endorsed for State Senate District 62 Anquam Mahamoud DFL Endorsed for State House District 62B Cedrick Frazier DFL Endorsed for Hennepin County Attorney Angela Conley DFL Endorsed for Hennepin County Commissioner Christin Crabtree & Collin Beachy DFL Endorsed for Minneapolis School Board at Large Shannon Gibney DFL Endorsed for Minneapolis School Board District 3
An aisle at Walgreens with skeletons and other Halloween decorations…in July
Bright green tree frog sitting on a leaf.
Map showing large dams that have flooded land on reservations and Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas.
A tiger sitting in its enclosure while my kid and her friend look at it.
Two pumas napping together with their arms around each other.
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Kitten in a potted plant
Picture of my great grandparents taken in NYC when they were young, in the late 1800s.
A page from the summer 1961 Weekly Reader: One section talks about Caroline Kennedy getting a new dog as a gift from the Russian government, whose mother was a Russian space dog. Another talks about the newly available electric toothbrush.
Max Lingner German, 1888-1959 Mademoiselle Yvonne, 1939 Oil on canvas Gift from the artist to the German people, 1949. Presented to the National Gallery by the State Commission for Art Affairs, 1952, A III 235 Max Lingner worked in Paris as an illustrator and art director for L'Humanité, the widely read newspaper of the French Communist Party. After the Nazis occupied France, he was arrested but escaped, obtained false papers, and supported the French Resistance, returning to Germany after the war. The bold image of his friend, Mademoiselle Yvonne, conveys Lingner's awareness, as he wrote, of "the importance of the French woman in public life, in party life, in illegality, the resistance movement and in the fight for freedom and peace... I have often glorified her cheerful confidence, her passionate heroism with pen and brush." Yvonne, a fellow member of the Resistance, was arrested, tortured, and deported to Auschwitz, where she is thought to have died in the spring of 1943.
Map of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From NY Times: 12 minutes ago Campbell Robertson and Aishvarya Kavi Reporting from Washington Crowds evacuated as storms menace Washington ahead of Trump's speech.
A squash plant growing out of my raised bed across my lawn and into my flower patch.
Purple lupine.
Me wearing a baseball cap with a squirrel holding an orange Tootsie Pop on it.
A tiny mint green Fiat with a dog looking out the window
Cat in Istanbul standing next to a rainbow painted staircase
Cat in Istanbul sitting on top of a case of pastries.
Cover of Here Where we Live is our Country by Molly Crabapple
Graph showing confirmed cases of Ebola outbreaks. The spread of the current outbreak is far quicker than all past outbreaks.
Baby spiny soft shell turtle in lake weed in Lake Harriet.
A framed collage of things we found behind the walls during our kitchen renovation including old photos, a Christmas gift tag, and a ticket to an event from 1983
My 3 year old on the swing at the park.
A preschool art project of the spoon and cherry sculpture
Our kitchen under renovation, with the cabinets starting to be installed.
A still from the movie of the original Lego mini figure
The cover of the book Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
A set of bricks in the sidewalk in Ferrara for the Ravenna-Rossi family who had lived there before being sent to Auschwitz. Only one of the five survived.
An old red bike parked on the street with an old seat over the back wheel for carrying a kid.
My friend’s big gray cat sitting in my suitcase looking at me.
My friend’s big gray cat sitting in my mom’s bag.
Me in my friend’s apartment how do her giant gray cat.
A curly eared cat sitting in a cat carrier held by its owner
Peggy Guggenheim’s grave with a plaque that says Here Rests Peggy Guggenheim, 1898-1979
Jewish cookies in a shop in Venice’s Jewish Ghetto.
Column with a carved woman eating a chicken leg with the foot still on it.
An old lithograph of a person playing a stringed instrument. The originally drawn head is covered up by a piece of paper with a new head drawn on it.
Spinet key with a mythical goat-man creature holding a pipe whistle.
VW ID.4 on the streets of Bologna
Me standing in front of a tiny mint green electric Fiat.
A street in Bologna with “No War” written in graffiti on a column.
Wax anatomical figures of human bodies.
Map from the 1600s showing the Gulf of Mexico
Map from the 1600s showing California as an island.
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Window from the abandoned Orpheum Theater with ornate statues.
A view of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, with the sun shining above.
Presentation slide: Why study "population chatter" about fertility change? • Jenny Trinitapoli defines population chatter as the ways ordinary people discuss demographic issues in everyday life. • Public narratives about fertility may shape perceptions of social change, influence policy preferences, and contribute to the broader cultural climate surrounding reproductive decision-making. • Conversations shed light on how people interpret fertility trends and connect them to broader social, economic, political, and environmental concerns.
A woman stands on a bridge above trains at a station in the 1950s.