Welcome!
I am a feminist political ecologist and interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with communities to support how Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Peoples, and Local Communities’ livelihoods and well-being can be sustained and to identify the pathways that shape just futures. I specialize in collaborative, transdisciplinary projects and creating mixed methods ethnographic teams. I work in multiple modalities and mediums, and value digital humanities labs and critical digital and design spaces for engagement.
I joined the University of Cincinnati Faculty in 2024 and am the Professor and Director of the School of Environment and Sustainability. Using a feminist political ecology framework, I map out historical and spatial inequalities and injustices and highlight pathways for self-determination and sovereignty in the context of acute change. My work focuses on the intersections of the environment, media, and power.
In all of my work I stitch together insights from engaged anthropology and visual anthropology to create collaborative projects. In addition to environmental anthropology, I find kinship with decolonizing approaches to research inquiry alongside insights from discard studies, anthropological of climate change, cultural geography, Indigenous studies, and Latin American studies.
I have partnered with the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó Peoples, an Indigenous community in Brazil, and am currently working on team-based and community-driven projects around the United States, in Latin America, and throughout the globe on environmental justice, soundscape ecologies, media sovereignty and digital well-being, and community resilience.
I am dedicated to opening and transforming the academy and providing undergraduate and graduate students fruitful and productive experiences to thrive in the multicultural and interconnected world in which they live and work. In order to better support students, I have completed IMPACT and SAFE Zone training, regularly mentor student researchers, and have advised service-learning and immersion programs on campus and abroad.
Land Acknowledgement
The Cincinnati area and the land that the University of Cincinnati has been built on is the Native homeland of the Indigenous Algonquian-speaking Peoples, including the Delaware, Miami, and Shawnee Peoples. We pay our respects to the Ancestors, Elders, and relatives/relations past, present and, emerging. Learn More.
To learn more, I encourage you to engage with the Are you Planning to do a Land Acknowledgement post, other resources on territorial acknowledgements, and the American Indian College Fund.
Specializations
Feminist Political Ecology + Sustainability| Environmental Justice | Collaborative Research and Praxis | Media Ecologies | Indigenous Activism and Rights | Visual and Digital Anthropology | Critical Data Studies
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American Anthropological Association
Anthropology and Environment Society
Association of American Geographers
Center for World Indigenous Studies
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Society for Visual Anthropology
