Wandering with Whales: Pacific Gray Conservation and the Green Capitalist Sea Change
PhD dissertation work at UCSB
Understand the discourses and rhetoric conservation groups use to justify single-species Pacific gray whale conservation
Understand ecotourist affect and gaze within whale-watching spaces on the Pacific Coast of the Americas
Identify the socioeconomic and political impacts of gray whale conservation and ecotourism at several key sites of Pacific gray whale action
Mezcal Sustainability Project
A collaboration with Andrew Mitchel of Ohio State University
Ethnographic fieldwork in the Valles Centrales (Oaxaca, Mexico) and surrounding mezcal-producing regions
Understand the socioecological dynamics, pressures, traditions, and emerging market realities of ancestral and artisanal mezcal production amidst its growing cosmopolitanization and popularization in the U.S. and Europe
Collaborate with scholars on research related to agricultural development strategies and multinational extraction in the study region
Especies Migratorias y Gobernanza Respetuosa de sus Ambientes (EMIGRA) - Conservation & Culture
Fellow on a multi-sited, multi-disciplinary project to understand the telecoupled drivers of environmental change for migratory species
Understand North American migratory species management to improve outcomes and identify new approaches to resource management challenges
Integrate social science data with ecological data to provide a base for general principles of sustainable and equitable governance of telecoupled systems
TEMPO - Temporal Eco-Social Management and Productivity of the Oceans
Team member on a project funded by the NSF subdivision of socio-ecological research: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)
Understand the socioecological impacts of temporary and rotational closures in Mexico and Tahiti on small-scale fisheries
Identify the contexts in which temporary closures emerge
Build evidence to explain the outcomes, justifications, and population dynamics of temporary and rotational fishery closures