About Me: Welcome to my page! I am an interdisciplinary, environmental social scientist. My work sits at the nexus of human geography, public policy, and  sociology. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs in 2017, and I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Purdue University Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. In my research program, I use a collaborative approach to:
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• Analyze how people perceive and adapt to social-ecological change
• Investigate how social inequality shapes how people adapt in households, groups, and natural resource organizations
• Recommend how to improve organizations, and the policies they make, to be more inclusive of difference​

​Areas of Expertise: Agriculture, Adaptation to Climate Change, Collaborative Methods, Environmental Justice and Policy, Governance,  Migration, Mixed-methods, NGOs, Public Participation, Qualitative Methods, and Survey Design

Recent Publications: 
Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change. (In press) World Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105282
Outsourcing governance in Peru's integrated water resources management. (In Press) Land Use Policy,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105105
Common ground: Small-scale farming through the lens of identity and community. (2020) The Journal of Rural Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.06.018 

​Contact:
Anna Erwin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Purdue University 
195 Marsteller Street
West Lafayette, IN 47909-2033
(she/her/hers)
erwin9@purdue.edu

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