Visiting Assistant Professor in Marine Studies
guascoa@oregonstate.edu

Bexell Hall

Bexell Hall 400B

2251 SW Campus Way

2251 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Credentials: 
PhD, Geography, University of Cambridge
MSc, Environment, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh
BA, American Studies, Carleton College

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Biography

Anna Guasco is an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar working across geography, environmental history, political ecology, and critical ocean studies. She earned her PhD in Geography at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She teaches courses for the Marine Studies Program. Her research focuses on environment-society issues, with particular interests in wildlife, conservation, environmental justice, and oceans/coasts. She is working on her first book project, which examines narratives, histories, and justice issues circulating around the migration and conservation of gray whales along the North American Pacific Coast. She is an American Society for Environmental History-Gale Fellow and a member of the inaugural editorial team for the H-Oceans network.

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At OSU
Courses Taught: 
MAST 201: Humans and the Ocean
MAST 300: Society, Culture, and the Marine Environment
MAST 444: Writing for Marine Studies