2019 Virginia University, Eberly College Faculty Research Travel Grant 2019 Virginia University, Eberly College Faculty Research Travel Grant ; summer research and travel. West Virginia University, Eberly College Book Subvention Award 2018 West Virginia University, Eberly College Faculty Development Grant 2017 ; summer research and travel. West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (WVHEPC) 2017 ; summer/fall; worked as funded co- investigator with the WVUHealth Justice Research Collective as part of a WVHEPC funded research project, 'WV Healthlink: Mapping Primary Health Care Disparities in the Mountain State,' a West Virginia primary care and health disparities inventory and mapping project West Virginia University, Office of International Programs Faculty Development Grant Eberly College 2015 ; Faculty Development Grant ; summer research and travel. West Virginia University, Eberly College Faculty Development Grant 2013 ; summer research and travel. West Virginia University, Eberly College Faculty Development Grant 2011 ; summer research and travel. West Virginia University Faculty Senate Research Grant 2009 , May-July 2009. [Internal, competitive] Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Grant 2005 , January-June 2005. Fulbright Institute of International Education Dissertation Grant, 2004 , Sept 2004-May 2005.

## FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2020-present Community responses to PFAS contamination (Mid-Ohio River Valley, Upper Great Lakes) 2020-present ' Extractive conservation': a critical examination of biodiversity conservation partnerships between pulp/forestry multinational corporations and NGOs, scientists, and small-scale producers (Uruguay) [spring, summer, and virtual research] 2017 New environmental movements organized against the socio-environmental risks and impacts of the agro-industrial model: issues include land concentration, GMOs, agro-toxics, health, water quality (Montevideo and Canelones, Uruguay); neighborhood activist movement against cement factory contamination (Minas, Uruguay); follow up on lead contamination (Montevideo, Uruguay) [summer research] 2015 New environmental movements organized against resource extraction and mega-development projects in Uruguay (Montevideo); neighborhood activist movement against cement factory contamination (Minas, Uruguay) [summer research] 2009, '11, '13 Grassroots, state, and scientific responses to lead contamination in Uruguay; Environmental conflicts surrounding pulp mill industry and commercial forestry in Uruguay; Afro-Uruguayan race and identity [all summer research] 2004-2005 Dissertation research on socio-political responses to lead contamination, Uruguay (19 months). 1999-2003 Masters and pre-dissertation fieldwork in Uruguay on six separate visits.

## HONORS

2009 Wolf Paper Prize 2009 Wolf Paper Prize Finalist, , Political Ecology Society (PESO). Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research 2007 , Binghamton University-SUNY. Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004 , Binghamton University-SUNY.

## PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

######### American 1999-present American 1999-present Anthropological Association

Sections : Environment Section; Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA); Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA)

######### Latin 2001-2011 Latin 2001-2011 American Studies Association

Sections : Culture, Politics, and Power; Environment; Health, Science and Society; Southern Cone Studies

######### Political 2009-2014 Political 2009-2014 Ecology Society (PESO) West Virginia University