Patrick Robinson
PhD Candidate
About Patrick Robinson
I am a PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology with a doctoral minor in Geography. I received an MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2024 and a BA in Global Development Studies, Foreign Affairs, and Latin American Studies from the University of Virginia in 2019. I also hold a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Science (GIS) from the University of Arizona. Before starting graduate school, I worked for Habitat for Humanity for three years helping to build and rehabilitate homes for low-income people in my hometown of Richmond, VA. My current research concerns environmental monitoring as a form of anti-mining activism in a cloud forest region of northwest Ecuador.
Academic Interests
Environmental anthropology, community-engaged scholarship, mixed-methods research, political ecology, political ontology, science and technology studies (STS), GIS, legal and political anthropology
Awards
Patrick is a past recipient of the CLIMAS Environment and Society Graduate Fellowship, the World Learning Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship for Activism in support of Human Rights, and the Kathryn R. Davis Foundation Projects for Peace Grant Award.