Brianna Castro

Brianna Castro

Doctoral Fellow
Brianna Castro
Brianna is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the HMUI Doctoral Workshop.  Her research interests include the social dimensions of climate change adaptation, environmental migration, climate change mobilities, and the interplay between individuals and institutions in resilience and adaptation planning.  Brianna’s dissertation project examines micro-level adaptation to the changing climate, paying particular attention to adaptation decision-making.  She considers how people do (or do not) consider both climate risks as well as their institutional context in their daily climate-related decisions in urban, peri-urban, and rural environments.  Her research draws on three cases: Bolivar, Colombia, coastal North Carolina, and Lagos, Nigeria. Brianna is also part of the Social Consequences of Climate Change working group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and has collaborated on research with partners such as The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and the UNC-CH Population Center.