curt grimm
Deputy Director
Curt Grimm is the Carsey Institute's Deputy Director and a Research Associate Professor in the UNH Department of Anthropology. Formerly Curt served as Senior Social Scientist in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Africa Bureau where he helped form and implement policy and guidance on social development issues, with specific emphasis on local participation, gender, community development and democratic governance topics and on programs that build partnerships and synergies among public, private and voluntary institutions. Rural development programs, particularly those that emphasize sustainable natural resource management, have been central to Curt’s career. Curt is also specialized in strategic planning, performance monitoring and evaluation and has experience assisting several New England nonprofit organizations to build institutional capacity around planning and program design. Curt earned his B.A. in Anthropology and History from the University of New Hampshire and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.