P. Joshua Griffin, Ph.D., M.Div.
Assistant Professor, School of Marine & Environmental Affairs
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies
Research areas
Joshua Griffin is a scholar of settler descent working at the intersections of Indigenous studies, political ecology, critical environmental anthropology, climate change, and environmental justice. As facilitator of the Engaged Ethnography Lab (EEL), his community-based research focuses on Arctic Indigenous ecologies, climate change, environmental health, food sovereignty, hunting and fishing governance, and environmental planning. More broadly, he is interested in approaches to “climate adaptation” that center Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination; participatory digital methods to support Indigenous environmental history, cultural heritage and planning; coastal dynamics, sea level rise, and climate-induced migration; and social movements for environmental and climate justice, including faith-based movements. Professor Griffin is jointly appointed in the Department of American Indian Studies.
Selected publications
Griffin, P. Joshua (2024). “From Vulnerability to Co-Production: Centering Indigenous Ecologies in Arctic Climate Adaptation,” in Resolving the Climate Crisis: Social Scientists Speak Out, K. Haltinner and D. Sarathchandra, eds. Routledge Press.
Popken, L., P. J. Griffin, C. Coté, E. Angel (2023). “Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Resurgent Self-Governance: Centering Nuu-chah-nulth Principles in Sea Otter Management in Canada.”Ecology and Society 28 (2):12. doi.org/10.5751/ES-13702-280212
L. Johnson,M. Mikulewicz, P. Bigger, R. Chakraborty, A. Cunniff, P. J. Griffin… [and 8 others]. (2023) “Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation,”Global Environmental Change 82.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102769
Griffin, P. Joshua. (2020) “Pacing Climate Precarity: Food, Care, and Sovereignty in Iñupiaq Alaska,” Medical Anthropology 39(4):333-347. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1643854