Beatrix Keller

Beatrix Keller, PhD is the Chair of Rural Sociology at the Institut d’Études Sociologiques Alpines (IESA), an independent research institution located in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland.

Dr. Keller transitioned to IESA following the completion of her doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Zurich. Over the past two decades, her research has focused on the structural dynamics of peripheral communities, with a particular emphasis on socio-economic resilience, demographic shifts, and the preservation of institutional knowledge in isolated regions.

June 16, 2026

How India Is Reimagining Affordable Housing

In my earlier piece, The Third Way Home: What Uruguay Teaches Us About Housing, I explored how Uruguay built one of the world’s most durable cooperative housing systems by putting land, ownership, and