Department of Anthropology

Allison Caine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cultural Anthropology

 

B.A. Environmental Studies, Bates College, 2007
M.Sc. Social Anthropology, Edinburgh University, 2010
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2019

 

acaine@uwyo.edu • Anthropology Bldg

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Allison Caine is a cultural anthropologist with a research focus on climate change, animal-based livelihoods, and health and wellbeing. She works with Quechua-speaking alpaca herders in southeastern Peru and sheepherders in Wyoming. Her research takes a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to understanding contemporary environmental problems, working in partnership with international and citizen scientists to produce community-led data collection and regional conservation efforts. She has also contributed to multidisciplinary research on population dynamics and sociolinguistic history in the Amazon. Her current research aims to understand Quechua women’s experiences of health and aging in changing landscapes, and follows paths of migration from the grasslands of Peru to the ranches of Wyoming.

Courses Taught: 

ANTH1200                   Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH4310                   Environmental Anthropology

ANTH4350                   Medical Anthropology

 

Recent Publications:

2022    Caine, A. “Herding at the Edges: Climate Change and Animal Restlessness in the Peruvian Andes.” Ethnos. (published online) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2022.2142266

2022  Arias, L., N. Q. Emlen, S. Norder, N. Julmi, M. Lemus Serrano, T. Chacon, J. Wiegertjes, A. Howard, M. Azevedo, A. Caine, S. Dunn, and R. van Gijn. Interpreting mismatches between linguistic and genetic patterns among speakers of Tanimuka (Eastern Tukanoan) and Yukuna (Arawakan). Interface Focus 20220056. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0056

2022  van Gijn, R., S. Norder, L. Arias Alvis, N. Q. Emlen, M. Azevedo, A. Caine, S. Dunn, A. Howard, N. Julmi, O. Krasnoukhova, M. Stoneking, and J. Wiegertjes. The social life of isolates (and small language families): the case of the Northwest Amazon. Interface Focus 12: 20220054. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2022.0054

2021. Caine, A. ‘Who would watch the animals?’: Gendered knowledge and expert performance among Andean Pastoralists. Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment 43(1), 4-13. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cuag.12261

 

Research Interests:

Climate change, Indigenous ecological knowledge, pastoralism and ranching, multispecies ethnography, migration, health and wellbeing.