How communities navigate transformation.
A connected research program spanning legacy mining communities in rural Arizona, development, infrastructure, livelihood security, and disaster recovery.
What happens to communities as environments, economies, and institutions change?
The research asks how resource extraction, infrastructure development, governance, community participation, and broader development processes influence local opportunities for achieving sustainable futures.
This program establishes a foundation for ongoing scholarship in environmental anthropology and promotes undergraduate research, community-engaged learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration across environmental studies, international studies, urban studies, and sustainability.
Infrastructure: A Community-Driven Approach to Social Sustainability in Rural Arizona
This ongoing project investigates community-led approaches to social sustainability and infrastructure in Arizona's legacy mining towns.
Beyond the Life of a Mine: The Complex Dynamics of Community Sustainability in Arizona’s Legacy Mining Towns
Research examining community sustainability in Arizona’s legacy mining towns and the social and economic transformations associated with extraction and its aftermath.
Pursuing Sustainability in Mining Communities in Southern Arizona
Scoping research focused on sustainability in mining communities in Southern Arizona.
Disaster Recovery & Social Vulnerability
Research examines livelihood security and disaster recovery as part of the Humanitarian Assistance Technical Support (HATS) program, funded by USAID and based at the University of Arizona's Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA).
Participation & Sustainable Development
Research connecting changing development discourse, politics, participation, corporate social responsibility, and livelihood sustainability.
Arizona at the center, comparative connections beyond.
My fieldwork is primarily centered in rural Arizona, drawing on comparative studies from Ghana and Zambia.