About Me:
Carylanna Taylor is currently an instructor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida where she received a doctorate in Applied Anthropology in 2011. She graduated from Penn State University in 1997 with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and Economics and honors in Geography and from Cornell University in 2003 with a M.S. in Development Sociology. Her doctoral dissertation, "Reshaping the Topographies of Home: Political Ecology of Migration" is a study of how economic and social remittances sent through transnational family networks affect the community of origin. It builds on work at the same site of her master’s thesis, Closing or Opening Spaces? Global and Local Water Conservation Discourse in Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park, Honduras.
Carylanna has conducted ethnographic and participatory research with park rangers, farmers, and agricultural agents in Chile, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, and Honduras and with migrants in Florida and New York. She has taught anthropology at the University of South Florida and Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Patel Center for Global Solutions at the University of South Florida.
She has presented research at meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society of Economic Anthropology, Rural Sociological Society, and the International Association for the Study of the Commons. Her most recent publication is “Natural Resource Conservation in the Wake of Emigration: Implications for Rural Honduran Communities Caught in the Tides of Transnational Migration and Remittance Dependency” in the 2011 edited volume Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development. Carylanna Taylor’s interests continue to focus on globalization, migration, rural development, environmental conservation, natural resource management, and methodology with a geographic focus in Latin America. Areas of teaching focus include cultural anthropology, linguistics, and sustainable development.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, cultural resource management, ethnography, sociology
Area(s) of Expertise
Migration, development, conservation, political ecology, Latin America, discourse
Current Area of Employment
Higher education
Comments
Hello Carylanna, I believe that I received your Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotony book? I am at USF Tampa. My email is srtaylor1@usf.edu