Anna Erwin

ANNA ERWIN

Assistant Professor, SEEMS

(956) 665-8809
anna.erwin@utrgv.edu

Department: SEEMS
Office: ESCNE 4.630
Location: Edinburg

UTRGV Faculty Profile

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Agriculture and Food Systems
  • Adaptation to Social-ecological Change
  • Collaborative Research Methods
  • Environmental Justice
  • Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Social Science
  • Environmental Governance
  • Food Justice
  • Gender
  • Labor in the Food System
  • Latin America
  • Migration
  • NGOs
  • Participatory Development
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Survey Design
  • Water Resources Management

Higher-Education

  • 2017, Ph.D., Planning, Governance, and Globalization, Virginia Tech

  • 2009, M.A., Appropriate Technology, Appalachian State University

  • 2004, B.A., English, Appalachian State University

Research Overview

 

As an interdisciplinary, environmental social scientist, my scholarship sits at the nexus of human geography, public policy, and environmental sociology. In my research program, I use social science methods and a collaborative research approach to:

  • Analyze how people perceive and adapt to social-ecological change at the individual, household, community, and organizational scales.
  • Investigate how intersecting factors of social inequality (gender, migration status, class, citizenship, race/ethnicity) shape how people adapt at multiple scales.
  • Inform organizations on ways to be more inclusive with policymaking.

Publications

 

  • Erwin, A. (2022). Grower influence during a participatory project with farmworkers. Geoforum
  • Erwin, Anna, Zhao Ma, Ruxandra Popovici, Emma Patricia Salas O’Brien, Laura Zanotti, Chelsea A. Silva, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos, Jonathan Bauchet, Nelly Ramírez Calderón, and Glenn Roberto Arce Larrea. Linking migration to community resilience in the receiving basin of a large-scale water transfer project. Land Use Policy 114 (2022): 105900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105900
  • Erwin, Anna. Connecting food justice to farmworkers through a faith-based organization. Journal of Rural Studies (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.10.009
  • Popovici, Ruxandra, Zhao Ma, Anna E. Erwin, Linda S. Prokopy, Carlos Renzo Zeballos Velarde, Edwin Fredy Bocardo Delgado, and José Porfirio Pinto Cáceres. "Maladaptive learning in Peru’s integrated water resources management." Environmental Science & Policy 127 (2022): 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.09.012
  • Popovici, Ruxandra, Andre Moraes, Zhao Ma, Laura Zanotti, Keith Cherkauer, Anna Erwin, Katy Mazer, Edwin F. Bocardo Delgado, José P. Pinto Cáceres, Pranay Ranjan, and Linda S. Prokopy. How do Indigenous and local knowledge systems respond to climate change? Ecology and Society 26, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12481-260327
  • Erwin, Anna, Zhao Ma, Ruxandra Popovici, Emma Patricia Salas O'Brien, Laura Zanotti, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos, Jonathan Bauchet, Nelly Ramirez Calderón, and Glenn Roberto Arce Larrea. Intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change. World Development 138 (2021): 105282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105282
  • Popovici, Ruxandra, Anna Erwin, Zhao Ma, Linda S. Prokopy, Laura Zanotti, Edwin Fredy Bocardo Delgado, José Porfirio Pinto Cáceres, Eliseo Zeballos Zeballos, Emma Patricia Salas O’Brien, Laura C. Bowling, and Glenn Roberto Arce Larrea, Outsourcing governance in Peru’s integrated water resources management. Land Use Policy 101 (2021): 105105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105105
  • Popovici, Ruxandra, Katy E. Mazer, Anna E. Erwin, Zhao Ma, José P. Pinto Cáceres, Laura C. Bowling, Edwin F. Bocardo‐Delgado, and Linda S. Prokopy. "Coproduction Challenges in the Context of Changing Rural Livelihoods." Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 171, no. 1 (2020): 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2020.3348.x
  • Iles, Keri, Zhao Ma, and Anna Erwin. Identifying the common ground: Small-scale farmer identity and community. Journal of Rural Studies 78 (2020): 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.06.018
  • Mazer, Katy E., Anna Erwin, Ruxandra Popovici, Edwin Bocardo‐Delgado, Laura C. Bowling, Zhao Ma, Linda S. Prokopy, and Carlos Zeballos‐Velarde. Creating a Collaboration Framework to Evaluate International University‐led Water Research Partnerships. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 171, no. 1 (2020): 9-26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2020.3342.x
  • Wang, Zelin, Rebecca Nixon, Anna Erwin, and Zhao Ma. Assessing the Impacts of Large-Scale Water Transfer Projects on Communities: Lessons Learned from a Systematic Literature Review. Society & Natural Resources 34, no. 6 (2020): 822-843. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1859029
  • Erwin, Anna, and Max Stephenson. "Farmworker justice, faith, and governance: A Critical Realist analysis of one FBO’s participatory initiative." Administrative Theory & Praxis 41, no. 4 (2019): 350-367. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2019.1643618

Present Courses

  • ENVR 4301 - Environmental Regulations
  • ENVR 2302 - Environment and Society