I produce applied scholarship at the intersection of anthropology, environmental health, and feminist and critical race science studies. My research agenda mobilizes the richness of interdisciplinary research to experiment with methodologies, pedagogies, and modes of public scholarship that:
Are of direct use to communities organizing for water and climate justice, and
Might catalyze the tools of the academy toward anticolonial climate and water justice futures.
I aim to reconsider some of the most central concepts in environmental and climate justice - including contamination, race, and evidence - in order to avoid reifying the same colonial logics that produced contemporary environmental and climate crises.
Before joining Colorado School of Mines as a postdoctoral fellow in the Engineering, Design and Society Department, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at Northeastern University with the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. I received my PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. You can reach me at vivian [dot] underhill [at] mines [dot] edu.