Christina Crespo
Position
Dodd Interdisciplinary Fellow
Degree Seeking
PhD
Email
christina.crespo25@uga.edu
Undergraduate Institution
University of North Florida
Undergraduate Degree
BS | Biology \\ BA | Anthropology
Masters Institution
James Cook University
Masters Degree
MSSc | Environment and Heritage
CV
Crespo_Dodd CV 2018.pdf
Research Detail
Understanding knowledge, art, science, and conservation as intimately intertwined, Crespo draws from multiple disciplines to explore how people collaborate in creating knowledge and how power is interwoven in these processes. Specifically, she is interested in using practices of storytelling and feminist epistemologies to examine the production of transnational coral reef science and conservation collaborations between Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Moreover, her work explores how interpersonal relations and everyday interactions shape these collaborative encounters.
Biography

Christina Crespo is a PhD student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology and is completing a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Her broad research interest is how alternative approaches to science and collaboration can generate knowledge—in more inclusive and equitable ways— to confront the challenges of a changing world. She became interested in how scientific knowledge is created and translated while completing her BA in Anthropology, after having finished her BS in Biology at the University of North Florida. This experience motivated her MSSc research in which she investigated factors that impede interdisciplinary conservation and explored potential tools for overcoming these barriers at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia. She was as a 2017-2018 Diversity and Inclusion Graduate Fellow at the University of Georgia.