Funding Years: 2024-2026

The Complexity of Anthropocene Migration Project (CAMP) team will lead path-breaking research into the 21st-century reasons of why and how people are (or are not) moving during humanitarian crises. By investigating recent crises from the past decade, the CAMP team will produce a new approach for classifying Anthropocene migration crises, work toward new theories of how these crises unfold, and investigate how narratives of justice intertwine with these crises. The team will hold a mid-project virtual, expert workshop to contextualize and deepen initial results. Likewise, in the second year, the team will convene an in-person workshop and symposium of world-leading experts at CSU including keynotes and panel presentations. Finally, during the course of the project the CAMP team will mentor students in conducting research on this topic, as well as lead a graduate-level seminar on the interdisciplinary dimensions of Anthropocene migration and humanitarian crises.

Principal Investigators:

• Patrick Keys, Assistant Professor, Atmospheric Science
• Jessie Luna, Assistant Professor, Sociology
• Jon Salerno, Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
• Mindy Hill, Program Manager, Center for Environmental Justice