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

Allison Caine is a cultural anthropologist with a research focus on the environment, climate change, rural health, and wellbeing. She works primarily with Quechua-speaking alpaca herders in southeastern Peru, with ties to sheep ranching in Wyoming. Her research in Peru takes a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to understanding contemporary environmental problems, working in partnership with international and citizen scientists to promote Indigenous data sovereignty and regional conservation efforts. She has also contributed to multidisciplinary research on sociolinguistic history in the Amazon. Her current research program aims to understand Quechua women’s experiences of aging in climate-impacted landscapes, as well as experiences of health and aging in rural/frontier contexts in the United States.

Courses Taught:

ANTH1200 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH4310 Environmental Anthropology

ANTH4350 Medical Anthropology

ANTH5010 Theories of Culture and Society

Recent Publications:

2024 Caine, A. “El cambio climático y el desasosiego animal en la Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú”. Allpanchis 51(93). https://revistas.ucsp.edu.pe/index.php/Allpanchis/article/view/1606

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.

Allison Caine

Assistant Professor

acaine@uwyo.edu

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Department of Anthropology

Allison Caine, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorCultural Anthropology

Allison Caine

Allison Caine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cultural Anthropology