I am a sociocultural and applied anthropologist.
I study the effects of climate change on human societies. I engage issues of environmental and climate justice in a diversity of settings.
I research social, cultural, and economic liabilities, including for practices of ownership, tenancy, and loss of land and houses, as well as effects for kinship, role succession, and social stratification generally.
I work and teach at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Go Rams!
I study the effects of climate change on human societies. I engage issues of environmental and climate justice in a diversity of settings.
I research social, cultural, and economic liabilities, including for practices of ownership, tenancy, and loss of land and houses, as well as effects for kinship, role succession, and social stratification generally.
I work and teach at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Go Rams!
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2023 - )
Dept. of Anthropology and Geography
Colorado State University
Dept. of Anthropology and Geography
Colorado State University
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021 - 2023)
and Director of the Environmental Justice Policy Clinic
Karsh Institute of Democracy
University of Virginia
Ph.D., Anthropology (2020)
University of Arizona
M.A., Anthropology (2014)
University of Arizona
B.A., Philosophy, Anthropology (2010)
College of William & Mary
Magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Pi Gamma Mu
and Director of the Environmental Justice Policy Clinic
Karsh Institute of Democracy
University of Virginia
Ph.D., Anthropology (2020)
University of Arizona
M.A., Anthropology (2014)
University of Arizona
B.A., Philosophy, Anthropology (2010)
College of William & Mary
Magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Pi Gamma Mu
My Approach
My training includes a range of mixed methods in sociocultural, applied, and linguistic subfields.
My theoretical specialty is in human stratification, studying how distinctions among individuals and groups are ideologically naturalized, politically maintained, and continually reproduced. I am most interested in inclusive (identity-based) and exclusive (gatekeeping) ways in which anthropogenic climate change contributes to existing social hierarchies.
I have experience with complex project management and team research, including community- and practitioner-engaged applied anthropology. These projects prioritize the development of socially beneficial deliverables, such as policy proposals and activist networking.
My training includes a range of mixed methods in sociocultural, applied, and linguistic subfields.
My theoretical specialty is in human stratification, studying how distinctions among individuals and groups are ideologically naturalized, politically maintained, and continually reproduced. I am most interested in inclusive (identity-based) and exclusive (gatekeeping) ways in which anthropogenic climate change contributes to existing social hierarchies.
I have experience with complex project management and team research, including community- and practitioner-engaged applied anthropology. These projects prioritize the development of socially beneficial deliverables, such as policy proposals and activist networking.
Research Interests: social differentiation and distinction (race, ethnicity, kinship, labor, etc.), property and land assessment, climate change, political ecology, political economy, environmental and climate justice, historical ethnography, and the role of historicity in social movements.
Research Methods: ethnographic methods (interviewing, participant-observation, residential fieldwork), qual/quant mixed methods, focus groups and community engagement workshops, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, semiotics, statistical measures, large digital datasets, and historical ethnography (archival, oral-historical, and comparative).
Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole
I currently serve as a Program Co-Chair for the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Research Methods: ethnographic methods (interviewing, participant-observation, residential fieldwork), qual/quant mixed methods, focus groups and community engagement workshops, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, semiotics, statistical measures, large digital datasets, and historical ethnography (archival, oral-historical, and comparative).
Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole
I currently serve as a Program Co-Chair for the Anthropology & Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).