Cultural Anthropologist
Excited to share that I will be working as an Ethnography Fellow with the Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC as part of the inaugural cohort of fellows in the SSRC Arts Research with Communities of Color Fellowship Program. This program—funded by the Wallace Foundation for the Arts and the Social …
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Happy to share a link to video and report from a webinar on "Food, Culture, and Climate" I participated in a while back with a group of thoughtful social scientists working at the intersection of climate justice and critical studies of food and subsistence food practices. sponsored by the US Global Climate Change Research Program …
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Excited to share that our article “Elevating Local Knowledge through Participatory Modeling: Active Community Engagement in Restoration Planning in Coastal Louisiana." Journal of Geographic Systems, 22: 241-266" was awarded best paper for 2020 in the Journal of Geographic Systems. Here is a nice write-up on the article: The objective of the JGS Best Paper Award is to encourage …
One of the most beautiful and incisive pieces I've read about the coastal south in a long time. Treat yourself to twenty minutes taking in these words and images, then follow the work of folklorist Michelle Lanier and photographer Janae Hamilton. From Southern Cultures: https://www.southerncultures.org/article/rooted/https://www.southerncultures.org/article/rooted/ Black Women, Southern Memory, and Womanist Cartographies words by Michelle …
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Had a fun conversation about Environmental Justice with colleagues and students at the University of South Carolina last month. Many thanks to the Student Body Vice President Hannah White for inviting us to the 1801 Live Podcast. 1801 Live, Episode 11: Environmental Justice and Sustainability Often, when we talk about sustainability, we may only think …
Monica Patrice Barra 