I'm pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology at Oxford University, studying how the people of the Marshall Islands are reacting to the spectre of devastating sea level rise caused by global warming. In 2003-2004, I spent a year in a rural Marshallese community as a volunteer English teacher. I returned to the country twice, in 2007 and 2009, to conduct fieldwork on climate change and culture. My popular writing and my academic work are closely related. My aim is to engage equally with academic and lay audiences on an issue--the threat of climate change to indigenous people--that is of interest to both of them.

I'm from Berkeley, California originally. Americans occasionally think I'm British; Brits think they should get their ears checked.

You can learn more about my involvement in the Marshall Islands in this BBC Oxford radio interview and these articles in the Oxford Mail and the Oxford Times.

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