Anthropology and the Environment

Dana E. Powell

Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3115
301 Alumni Building
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Email: depowell[at]email.unc.edu

Dana E. Powell is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is currently writing a dissertation on the cultural politics of energy development on the Navajo Nation, considering how emerging energy technologies shape the politics of knowledge, identity, and recognition. Dana has also done ethnographic and collaborative research in Chiapas, Mexico and in North Carolina on energy and food economies, gender, and indigenous rights movements. Dana is active in several research collectives, including the Center for Integrating Research and Action (CIRA) and the Social Movements Working Group (SMWG) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology from UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Guilford College. Dana’s graduate work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Jacobs Fund, and the Royster Society of Fellows and the University Center for International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.