Nicole Katin

Senior Professor of Practice- Anthropology

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Research

Sociocultural anthropology, environmental anthropology, ethnobiology, ethnobotany, conservation-induced displacement/displacement studies, traditional environmental knowledge/indigenous knowledge/local knowledge, biodiversity conservation

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Tulane University, 2017
  • M.A., Tulane University, 2012
  • M.S., Florida International University, 2007
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Senior Professor of Practice, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 2023-
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 2020-
  • Professor of Practice, Tulane University, 2017–2023
  • Instructor of Record, Tulane University. 2015-2017, 2012-2013

Distinctions

  • Tulane CELT Faculty Mentored Research Grant, 2024
  • Tulane CELT Classroom Enhancement Grant, 2021
  • Tulane CELT Faculty Development Grant, 2020
  • Fulbright IIE, U.S. Student Fellowship, Brazil, 2014
  • American Philosophical Society, Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research, 2013
  • Society for Economic Anthropology, Halperin Memorial Fund, 2013

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Brazil
  • Ecuador

Related Experience

  • TIERA Senior Researcher, FCAT ((Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales), 2023-
  • TIERA Program Faculty, FCAT (Fundación para la Conservación de los Andes Tropicales), Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 2022-
  • Biologist, Audubon of Florida’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Western Everglades Research Program. Naples, FL 2006-2008
  • Naturalist, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, School Programs Department. Naples, FL 2000-2004

Selected Publications

  • 2020. Katin, N. Exploring the Ecological Dimensions of Displacement in Núcleo Itariru (Serra do Mar State Park): an Ethnobotanical Study of Peasant/Landscape Relations in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Journal of ethnobiology, 40, 21-38.
  • 2007. Liston, SE, NM Katin & JJ Lorenz. 2007. Sampling Aquatic Fauna in Cypress Forests, Big Cypress National Preserve. In Development and Testing of Protocols for Sampling Fishes in Forested Wetlands...