PhD Candidate I am a graduate student at the University of Georgia and part of the Human and Environment Change Lab (https://www.heclab.org) advised by Dr. Don Nelson. After nearly two years in the field, I am now in the analysis and writing stage of my dissertation. During fieldwork, I employed diverse methods to understand how the politics of environment and pollution are enmeshed in people's everyday lives in the urban-environment landscape of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My dissertation research has three approaches to understand environmental struggle issues in cities: 1) the ways environmental history can inform infrastructural actions and landscape changes in a coastal floodplain of Rio de Janeiro, 2) how access to water and sanitation varies according to one's type of household (gated-communities and favelas) that emblematically make up the Brazilian urban landscape, and 3) how certain animal lives unexpectedly survive in the midst of contamination and create unprecedented social relationships. In the past I worked as an ethnographer and research assistant at the Cambodian-Laotian Community Strength & Resilience Project for Dr. Denise Lewis. Of note: Seigerman, Cydney K., S. Kyle McKay, Raul Basilio, Shelly A. Biesel, Jon Hallemeier, Andressa V. Mansur, Candice Piercy, et al. (2023). Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 59(2): 281–298. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13086. DePuy, W., Weger, J., Foster, K., Bonanno, A. M., Kumar, S., Lear, K., Basilio, R., & German, L. (2021). Environmental governance: Broadening ontological spaces for a more livable world. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211018565 Research Research Areas: Cultural Anthropology Research Interests: water, pollution, waste, environmental perceptions, urban anthropology Labs: Human and Environmental Change Lab Education Education: B.A. Anthropology major, Sociology minor University of South Alabama
