Profile
About
Post-doc
Department: Anthropology
Email: sarahwhitaker842@boisestate.edu
Research Areas
- Climate change
- Health and well-being
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Flooding
- Socio-ecological systems
Research Summary
Sarah Whitaker is a biocultural anthropologist who studies how social and ecological systems interact to shape human and animal well-being under conditions of climate and environmental change. Her current research projects address how people make decisions with uncertain climate information and how climate and environmental changes are affecting agricultural practices and human well-being in rural mountain areas. Additional research projects concern cultural models of pain among endurance cyclists, biosecurity and animal welfare on smallholder farms, and the well-being of beekeepers in mountain areas.