Christina Callicott

Alumni
Email: c.callicott@ufl.edu

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida
M.A. Anthropology, University of Florida, 2014
B.A. Gender Studies, University of Colorado, 1995

Subfield

Chair

Research Interests

Ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, shamanism, environmental anthropology, bio-cultural diversity, indigenous peoples, political ecology, gender, Western Amazon

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed

Callicott, Christina 2016 “Introduction to the Special Issue: Ayahuasca, Plant-Based Spirituality, and the Future of Amazonia.” Anthropology of Consciousness 27(2):113-20.

Callicott, Christina 2013 “Interspecies communication in the Western Amazon: Music as a form of conversation between plants and people.” European Journal of Ecopsychology 4:32-43.

Book Chapter

Callicott, Christina and Catherine Tucker. 2019. “Marketing Organic Foods in the United States.” Organic Food, Farming and Culture. Janet Chrzan and Jacqueline Ricotta, editors. Routledge.

Reports

Callicott, Christina, Bette Loiselle and Patricia Delamonica Sampaio 2015 Tropical Conservation and Development Program 2014 Alumni Survey Report. Gainesville: University of Florida Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Accessible at http://www.tcd.ufl.edu/Data/Sites/44/media/documents/reports/

Invited Reprints

Callicott, Christina. 2017 (In press) “Interspecies communication in the Western Amazon: Music as a form of conversation between plants and people” (translation–French). Cygne Noir: Revue d’Exploration Sémiotique 4(2017):n.p.

Callicott, Christina, translated by Catarina Barros. N.D. (In press) “Interspecies communication in the Western Amazon: Music as a form of conversation between plants and people” (translation–Portuguese). Chão da Feira Caderno de Leituras.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Firebird Foundation Fellowship for Anthropological Research, 2018, for dissertation research.
UF Graduate School Doctoral Research Travel Award, 2018, for dissertation research.
Second Place, Master’s Thesis category. UF Center for Latin American Studies Field Research Clinic Poster Competition, 2014.
TCD Field Research Grant, UF Center for Latin American Studies, to fund pre-dissertation research and site visits in the Peruvian Amazon, 2016.
Doughty Research Award, UF Department of Anthropology, 2016.
Conference Grant, Department of Anthropology and Land Use Environmental Change Institute (SALSA), 2015.
Conference Grant (SALSA), UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program, 2015.
Amaya-Burns Research Grant for pre-dissertation site visits in the Peruvian Amazon. UF Dep’t of Anthropology. 2015.
Conference Grant, UF Dep’t of Anthropology and Land Use Environmental Change Institute (AAA), 2014.
Conference Grant (AAA), UF Center for Latin American Studies, 2014.
Waggoner Field Research Grant, UF Dep’t of Anthropology, 2014.
Conference Grant (Toluca, Mex.) UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program, 2014.
Scholarship for summer study, UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program, 2014, for course in Tropical Plant Systematics, Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica.
Scholarship for summer study, Organization for Tropical Studies, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2014, for course in Tropical Plant Systematics, OTS, Costa Rica.
Fellowship for Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies, UF Center for Latin American Studies, to study Amazonian Kichwa at the Andes-Amazon Field School, Tena, Ecuador. Summer 2013.
Field Research Grant, UF Center for Latin American Studies. Protocol title: Music, Plants and Healing: Shamanic Music in Western Amazonia. Summer 2013.
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Competition, 2012, 2013.
Ruegamer Fellowship, UF Dep’t of Anthropology; March 2012. Three-year graduate fellowship.
Grinter Fellowship, UF Dep’t of Anthropology, 2012. Three-year departmental fellowship.

This student has graduated from the program so the information on this page may not be current.

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