Members

Sophie Haines, University of Edinburgh

My research includes studies of the negotiation and translation of knowledges in the context of environmental decision-making. I have explored perceptions of the environment, changing livelihoods, infrastructural development, and the use of scientific predictions for resource and hazard management in Belize, Kenya and the UK, focusing on anticipatory framings of environment and development interventions. More info

Sara de Wit, Universiteit Leiden

Trained in anthropology and African Studies Sara has a strong empirical orientation, with long-term fieldwork experience in Madagascar, Cameroon and Tanzania. She has carried out “ethnographies of aid” – at the intersection of STS, development theories, environmental anthropology and postcolonial studies – broadly focused on how globally circulating ideas, such as climate change, travel, and what happens when they are translated by varying actors along the translation chain. More info

George Adamson, King's College London

George’s research examines the production and use of climate knowledge in a number of temporal and geographical contexts. A particular interest is in the way that legacies of historical knowledge-production inform perceptions of climate-related risks today. More info

Kenny Broad, University of Miami/Columbia University

Kenny utilizes mixed methods to study various subjects related to environmental anthropology, ranging from the use and misuse of scientific information to cognitive biases to environmental justice. More info

Maria Ines Carabajal, Universidad de Buenos Aires

My research focuses on describing and analysing the complexity of providing climate services in Argentina and South America, and how climate information can be improved taking into consideration expectations and needs of climate sensitive sectors. In addition, my post-doctoral research addresses how climate services can be useful to support adaptation to variability and climate change in the agricultural sector of Argentina. More info

Phaedra Daipha, D3-Allstate

I work at the intersection of science and technology studies, sociology of professions, and decision science. I have written about weather forecasting practice and culture, human-machine interaction, and uncertainty management. More info

Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado Boulder

Lisa’s work has focused on the use of information in decision making in various contexts such as adaptation on public lands, carbon management, and water management. She is also interested in how decisions are influenced by different worldviews about risk and responsibility. More info

Emma Garnett, University of Exeter

Ethnographically explores the social, material and political relations of environmental health science. She has researched the ways in which less visible, emergent phenomena like air pollution become apparent in science and policy and how these relate to action. More info

Jen Henderson, Texas Tech University

Jen a social scientist in the U.S. who works with weather and climate experts to understand the sociotechnical, ethical, and political dimensions of their forecasts/warnings as they circulate among different publics. She draws on ethnographic methods and theories from Science and Technology Studies to make legible the often invisible notions of harm, power, and responsibility. More info

Tanja Hendriks, KU Leuven

Tanja Hendriks is an anthropologist interested in state bureaucracy, disasters and development. Trained in African studies, anthropology and development studies, her empirical work focuses on Malawi, where she studies disaster relief interventions and civil servants’ working lives at the forefront of the climate crisis. Her PhD focused on disaster governance at district level, revealing the importance of civil servants’ sense of duty in making the disaster-prone and donor-dependent Malawi state function. Her current research zooms in on the motivations, aspirations and obligations of national level civil servants of the Malawi Government Department of Disaster Management Affairs. More info

Cecilia Hidalgo, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Her interests are in anthropology of science, currently studying the conditions that facilitate inter/transdisciplinary research for the provision of climate services in southeastern South America. More info

Vladimir Jankovic, University of Manchester

My research has been in the cultural history of meteorology, numerical weather prediction, medical climatology and urban climatology in relation to urban design. Currently working on the AHRC project on the history of Soviet climate science and developing an initiative on the history of climate futures. More info

Myanna Lahsen, Wageningen University

Myanna Lahsen studies socio-cultural and political dynamics related to global environmental change, environmental sustainability and development, with special attention to science-policy interfaces and related knowledge politics in the United States and Brazil. One of the strands of my research explores sociological patterns and conflicts reflected in divergent framings of climate science and policy options, including the relationship between climate change and extreme weather events and policy consequences of linking the two. More info

Daniel Murphy, University of Cincinnati

Dr. Murphy conducts research on the use of integrated climate scenarios in natural resource management decision-making and community adaptation processes. His work focuses specifically on the politics of knowledge and place, bureaucratic practices, and uncertainty. More info

Ben Orlove, Columbia University

I focus on climate change issues (narratives of change; adaptation; STS) in high mountain regions, particularly the Andes. I am a lead author on the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere and on the Sixth Assessment Report. I also work more generally on policy issues (risk analysis decision-making, governance). More info

Samuel Randalls, University College London

Weather forecasting and meteorological expertise within businesses, both contemporary and historical. Politics of climate science and climate change futures. More info

Jennifer Spinney, University of Western Ontario

My current research explores: social constructions of weather and flood risk, weather and flood forecast and warning policy as a form of governance and the everyday relations that are governed through policy, and how text-based and face-to-face interaction lend to the creation of expert and professional identities as well as coordinate actions and decision-making behaviour within and across groups of producers, communicators, and users of weather information.

Renzo Taddei, Federal University of São Paulo

I have written on the so-called “rain prophets” of rural Northeast Brazil, and how meteorological information is transformed when it reaches traditional communities. I am now working with the idea of “alter geoengineering”, referring to non-Western technologies for manipulating the atmosphere, and how they relate to science and environmental politics in Brazil. I am also working in a project that studies the challenges of the collaboration between climate scientists and engineers working in large infrastructural systems (the Brazilian electric system, in this case). More info

Former members

Steve Rayner, University of Oxford: We recognise with gratitude the invaluable contributions and mentorship of our founding member Professor Steve Rayner, whose voluminous work on Cultural Theory of Risk and interventions into debates over climate policy and the use and usability of scientific information have been ihghliy influential within and well beyond academia.
Heather Lazrus, National Center for Atmospheric Research: We are deeply grateful for Dr Heather Lazrus' support and contributions as a founding member of AnthFOR. Her research focused primarily on understanding how things like risk perceptions, risk communication, and decision making help alleviate vulnerability and enhance adaptive capacities in ways that lead to less disastrous outcomes. She examined the entire lifecycle of weather and climate hazards to understand how the pre-disaster phase influences the generation, understanding, and impacts of disasters with special attention to "rigorous compassion" - how we can use our methods and theories with compassion for better outcomes. More info

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