I’m a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. My research is based in coastal Louisiana, where I think about climate, property, and infrastructure.

I grew up in Slidell, Louisiana, on Bayou Paquet, and in New Orleans. Prior to Berkeley, I received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University in Sociomedical Sciences. My research has received support and funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Ethnological Society, the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, the UC Mentored Research Award, the UC Dissertation-Year Award, and the Brandes Award.

Contact: nmabry@berkeley.edu