Case Watkins

Case Watkins (awatki4[at]lsu.edu)

Born in suburban New Orleans, but reared in the piney hills of Northwest Louisiana, Case Watkins has deep appreciation and affinity for the state's cultural diversity. Currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, he studies colonial transformations of place, the African Diaspora, and human-environment relationships in Latin America. His MS thesis, completed at Texas State University, focused on issues of race and class related to Hurricane Katrina’s flooding of New Orleans. From 2009-2013, he served as graduate assistant for the Latino New Orleans project, supported by a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents administered by Andrew Sluyter. He received a 2012 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct dissertation research in Brazil and has published articles in Southeastern Geographer and Journal of Latin American Geography. For publications and more information, see his page on academia.edu.