Katherine E. Browne is a cultural anthropologist who studies the interaction of social history, cultural configurations, and political economies. Her current research focuses on the entwining of culture and resilience. In her recent book Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina, she follows a Louisiana bayou family of 300 members from their evacuation through the vexations of return and recovery, which lasted longer and hurt more than anyone expected. This work and her documentary film Still Waiting: Life After Katrina were funded by the National Science Foundation. Browne is a professor of anthropology at Colorado State University and an editor of the journal Economic Anthropology. Follow her on Twitter @culturegaps.