The Department of Anthropology is proud to host our post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Carlye Chaney, for a special lecture over her research. Please see the details of her talk below!

Locally situated biologies and infrastructural violence: Identifying the mechanisms linking contamination, the gut microbiome, and health inequities

The social and environmental context can influence human health through a number of pathways, including through water infrastructure. In this talk, I will use a locally situated biologies approach to investigate how environmental justice issues related to water infrastructure become incorporated into human biology, specifically focusing on exposure to environmental contaminants and changes in the gut microbiome in three sites: Formosa, Argentina; the Mississippi Delta; and southwest Illinois.