College of Liberal Arts and Education
Anthropology
Roberto Barrios
Professor of Anthropology, Doris Zemurray Stone Chair for Latin American Studies
About
Dr. Barrios has researched disaster risk reduction and recovery since 1999. He has conducted fieldwork in a variety of locations in Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the U.S. Midwest and the U.S. Gulf South. Using ethnographic methods, Dr. Barrios' work has focused on documenting the voices of disaster survivors with specific attention to the categories through which they define successful disaster recovery and the ways they narrate the connection between sensory experience and the built, social, and "natural" environments.
Dr. Barrios is author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction and co-editor of Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice. He is also co-editor of the Berghahn book series Catastrophes in Context with Crystal Felima and Mark Schuller.
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida with a focus on applied anthropology, anthropology of disasters, anthropology of development, and medical anthropology.