Christian Espinosa Schatz

Christian Espinosa Schatz is a Ph.D. candidate in the combined program in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Yale. His research engages with the fields of environmental anthropology, human geography, agroecology, ethnobotany, and science and technology studies to understand how climatic change intersects with the local environmental relations of marginalized peoples. His dissertation, based on intensive ethnographic research with a Mam Mayan community in Guatemala’s Western Highlands, examines how U.S.-bound migration is transforming Mayan land-use practices and how, in turn, Mayans make sense of climate through their changing agricultural landscape.

Before coming to Yale, Christian received an M.Phil. in Human Geography from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard University, where he was a first-generation college student.