The Multispecies, Environmental, and Spatial Anthropology Lab investigates how humans find ways to live with difference across species, cultures, and landscapes in a rapidly changing world. Our work explores the socioenvironmental adaptations that shape conservation, biodiversity, and human-wildlife relations. We ask how people and other species learn to coexist in shared spaces. We bring conservation practice into the 21st century by integrating ecological thinking into the everyday human world, from cities and designed environments to pastoral and Indigenous landscapes.
Our research spans urban landscapes, conservation, biophilic design, and human-predator conviviality. We use ecological, ethnographic, behavioral, and spatial methods to understand multispecies interactions. Projects range from community-based studies and urban biodiversity assessments to collaborations with partners such as the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge and Samburu communities in northern Kenya.
The lab is committed to hands-on research and undergraduate training, supporting student-led projects and cultivating an inclusive, ethically grounded research culture. Our work informs conservation policy, urban planning, environmental justice, and the design of biodiverse, livable environments that support both human and other-than-human communities.
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