Brianna
Castro

Brianna Castro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Climate Studies Program at Vanderbilt University. Her interdisciplinary, ethnographic research considers the social effects of climate change in everyday life. She considers the spectrum of responses to climate change effects from adaptation in place to mobility across distinct global contexts. Brianna is working on her first book about how climate change is reshaping everyday life using ethnographic data from Colombia, Nigeria, and the United States. Her work appears in Global Environmental Change, One Earth, Ecology and Society, and Qualitative Sociology among other outlets. Before joining Vanderbilt University, Brianna was a postdoctoral fellow conducting research on adaptation through youth service programs for the US National Parks Service and the US Forest Service. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University and a BA in Public Policy Analysis and Spanish Language and Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brianna also served in the US Peace Corps in rural Colombia and worked extensively as a community development practitioner in the rural South before pursuing her PhD.