Diane Austin

Professor and Director - School of Anthropology
Research Anthropologist - Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Programs/Projects

  • Ecological Restoration: A Critical Look Moving Targets and Interconnected Webs: Studying Socioeconomic Effects of Ecosystem Change
  • Exploring Local-Level Adaptation: A Case Study from Southern Louisiana

Selected Adaptation Publications

  • Hilton, Amanda, Sydney Pullen, Elizabeth Eklund, and Diane Austin. 2022. Community-University Relations: Community Perspectives on their Interactions with the University of Arizona. Prepared for the University of Arizona Office of Research, Innovation, and Impact and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. July. 
  • Austin, Diane, Julie Luchetta., Victoria Phaneuf, and Jessica Simms. 2022. Social Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Coastal Communities along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. OCS Study. BOEM 2022-021. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. 
  • Austin, Diane and Victoria Phaneuf. 2020. Place Matters: Tracking Coastal Restoration after the Deepwater Horizon. In Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg, editors, Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature. Rowman & Littlefield. 
  • Austin, Diane. 2018. Doubly Invisible: Women’s Labor in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry. In Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, and Kaveh Ehsani, eds. Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Austin, Diane, and Tom McGuire. 2017. The Great Crew Change? Structuring Work in the Oilfield. In Kirk Jalbert, David Casagrande, Anna Willow, eds. ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures. Routledge.

Degree(s)

  • PhD, Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
  • MS, Environmental Engineering Sciences, California Institute of Technology
  • BS, Environmental Sciences/Biology, Texas Christian University
  • BS, Elementary Education, Texas Christian University
Geographic Area
Latin America and Caribbean
US/Canada
Language Area
Spanish
Expertise Area
Ecology and Restoration
Human Dimensions of Climate Change
Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving
Public Policy and Governance
Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach