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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

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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 Saeed
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msaeed@nas.edu
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