Post-Doc, Anthropology
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
About
I am a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society, Technology, and Development (STANDD), McGill University.
My research examines how the people of the Marshall Islands understand the threat of global climate change, which threatens to render this low-lying country uninhabitable in the present century. I have lived in the Marshall Islands for 19 months including 7 months of ethnographic fieldwork on climate change attitudes in 2007 and 2009.
Previously I lived in the Marshall Islands from July 2003 to July 2004 as a volunteer English teacher in an isolated rural community. During this time I learned the local Marshallese language to proficiency. I wrote a full-length textbook, Practical Marshallese, for learning the native language of the Marshall Islands, using my undergraduate background in Linguistics.
In summer 2008 I conducted a preliminary project on Sami perceptions of climate change in northern Norway, as a visiting researcher under the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Tromsø.
At McGill I teach ANTH 206 "Environment and Culture" and a special topics seminar "Climate Change and Culture."
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