Dr. David Casagrande

grants

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Dept. of Sociology/
Anthropology
and
the Environmental Initiative

STEPS Building, Room 436
Lehigh University
1 West Packer Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18015

Tel: (610) 758-2672

Principal investigator

Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network and the CONVERGE facility at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder (Principal Investigator); granted in 2020 to establish a working group on Cultural Perceptions of Risk, Behavioral Responses, and Community Resilience in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Lehigh University, Faculty Research Grant (Principal Investigator); granted in 2019 to study cultural models of rising sea level in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Lehigh University Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant; granted 2013 for modeling the effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in Pennsylvania on human quality of life.
National Science Foundation IMEE Program (with N. Pinter and H. McIlvaine-Newsad); granted 2012 to study impediments to flood mitigation along the Mississippi, Illinois and Ohio Rivers. (Download PDF)
National Science Foundation SGER Program (with H. McIlvaine-Newsad); granted 2009 to study the resilience of rural agricultural communities in Illinois after the 2008 Mississippi River floods. (Download PDF)
Western Illinois University, University Research Council (with H. McIlvaine-Newsad, B. Ribbens & G. Rands); granted 2006 to study environmental values and ecological sustainability among migrants from the Marshall Islands. (Download PDF)
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement award; granted 2000 to research Tzeltal Maya medicinal plant knowledge in Chiapas, Mexico. (Download PDF)
National Science Foundation Ethnographic Research Training Grant; awarded 1998 to study ethnobiology and cultural models of primary-forest in Chiapas, Mexico.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Georgia; Dissertation Travel Award granted 1999 to research Tzeltal Maya taste classification and medicinal plant use in Chiapas, Mexico.
Connecticut Sea Grant College Program; awarded 1995 to survey environmental values of coastal resources.
Tropical Resources Institute, Yale University; awarded 1994 to evaluate methods for estimating parrot populations in Venezuela.
Center for Tropical Bird Studies; awarded 1994 to evaluate methods for estimating parrot populations in Venezuela.

Secondary investigator

Lehigh University, Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (Co-Principal Investigator); granted in 2020 to study the interaction of public perceptions and decisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership (Co-Director); granted in 2018 to study managed retreat as a tool for disaster resilience in the US and Japan.
National Science Foundation, Decision Making under Uncertainty Program (Senior personnel); granted 2004 to create a "Decision Center for a Desert City" in Phoenix AZ; research to include human perceptions and the science and policy of climate uncertainty.
Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Multi-Investigator Proposal Development Grant (Co-Principal Investigator); granted 2003 to study cognitive perception of landscapes, habitat conservation and water scarcity in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona.

(photo D. Casagrande)

Current Positions

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehigh University

Research Coordinator, Environmental Initiative, Lehigh University

Production Editor, Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Topic Editor, Encyclopedia of Earth

Associate Editor, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Georgia, Ecological Anthropology

Master of Forest Science, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

B.S., Geography, Southern Connecticut State University

Languages

ENGLISH - primary, SPANISH - secondary, TZELTAL (Maya) - intermediate, GERMAN - basic

"Scientists believe in proof without certainty: most people believe in certainty without proof."

Ashley Montagu