Daniel Renfrew
is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at West Virginia University. He received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Binghamton University, State University of New York in 2007. Dr. Renfrew joined the WVU faculty in Fall 2008 after a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Towson University. His teaching and research interests span the environmental, critical medical, urban, and political anthropology sub-fields, in addition to interdisciplinary approaches to social movements, science and technology studies, political ecology, and Latin American studies. His dissertation research in Montevideo, Uruguay, analyzed social movement formation and its relation to place identity and urban spatial transformations, through the examination of a grassroots environmental justice movement against lead poisoning. It also addressed the creative responses of the state and the medical and scientific communities to the lead issue through the mobilization of new environmental paradigms and bureaucratic frameworks. Future research interests include a multi-sited analysis of the strategic positioning of South America’s Southern Cone region as a key world site of pulp paper production. He will focus on the local and transnational conflicts, environmental movements, and public debates surrounding the construction of several multinational corporation-financed pulp mills along the Uruguay-Argentina border and across Uruguay. Dr. Renfrew also plans to research environmental and health-related themes in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Contact Information
email: daniel.renfrew@mail.wvu.edu
telephone: (304) 293-8788
office location: 318 Knapp Hall
Courses Taught
SocA 254 Cultural Anthropology
SocA 255 Latin American Cultures
socA 493J Social Movements
SocA 493Q Environmental Anthropology
Vita (pdf)
