I am a broadly-trained anthropologist and ecologist interested in how people interact with their environments, both sustainably and unsustainably. I have worked with museum collections and conducted fieldwork in the United States, Guatemala, Kosovo, Montenegro, and The Gambia to explore human adaptation to a variety of ecological circumstances. My work particularly focuses on how human demography, economics, politics, and culture have shaped the relationships we have with other species and how these relationships could change in the future.