Science Policy Fellow - Theodore Hilton
Implementing Organization
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Gulf of Mexico Division
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$55,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Human and/or Institutional Capacity
Project Description
Mr. Hilton is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Tulane University. He has an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Tulane, as well as a B.A. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University and an A.A. in Liberal Arts from Seattle Central Community College. His dissertation research examines the use of historic preservation narratives by descendant residents in southeast Louisiana Free Settlements struggling against industrial encroachment. His broader research interests include activist methodologies, political ecology, abolitionist geographies, and the politics of recognition. He was awarded a New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Monroe Fellowship in 2021 for an ethnographic project titled “From Petro-Plantation to People’s Preservation: Louisiana Free Settlements and the Road to Recognition.” He was a previous fellow and then consultant for Tulane’s Mellon Program in Community-Engaged Research. Theo has built long-term research partnerships with the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network. Theo also explores themes of ecology, development, queerness, race, and Southern identity as singer and songwriter in the band Nana Grizol.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
Project Website
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