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Education
- 2006-2011 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 2003-2005 M.A., Department of Anthropology, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 1992-1996 B.A., Religious Studies, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina (USA)
Experience
- 2025.06- Research Center for Humanities and Social Engagement, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei Medical University
- 2024.10- Board Member, Peace Development Fund (USA)
- 2023.09- Director of the Co-Lab for Environmental Health Equity & Renewal (CEHER) in Taiwan
- 2023.08- Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei Medical University
- 2023- Research Scholar; Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics, at Appalachian State University (USA)
- 2021- Affiliate Faculty; Center for International Indigenous Affairs, National Dong Hwa University
- 2020- Co-Director of the Environmental Justice CoLab in North Carolina
- 2019-2023 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
- 2021-2022 Visiting Associate Professor, Center for International Indigenous Affairs, College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University
- 2019-2020 Visiting Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
- 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology,Appalachian State University
- 2011-2012 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University
Research Interests
- Environmental anthropology
- Political ecology
- Environmental health humanities
- Native American/Indigenous Studies; Extractivism and energy studies
- Environmental and climate justice; science/technology/society
- Affect theory and embodiment
- Gender and feminist theory
- Ethnographic and collaborative methodologies
- Research areas：Navajo (Diné) Nation (USA); eastern North Carolina (USA); Hualien, Taiwan.
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Dana E. Powell, Sub-Award Director, Sub-project 6: “Toward a More Inclusive Political Ecology: Indigenous Challenges to Taiwan's Mountaineering Movement,” in “Toward Taiwan's Hiking-and-Trailology: How Citizen Participation, Mountain Sustainability, and Emerging Technologies Shape the Contemporary Sport Culture,” Integrative Research Project, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Taiwan, Sports Humanities Program. PI, Ming-Sho Ho, NTU Sociology. [NTD 7 million for full Integrative Project / 2-year project]
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Ecologies of Energy: an Empirical, Comparative Approach to Sustainability in Bunun Nation (Zhouxi Township, Taiwan) and Lumbee Nation (Robeson County, Nc, Usa)
Powell, D. E. (PI)
8/1/25 → 7/31/26
Project: A - Government Institution › b - National Science and Technology Council
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能源生態學：布農族（臺灣卓溪鄉）和倫比族（美國北卡羅來納州羅伯森縣）之永續性經驗實徵比較研究(1/2)
Powell, D. E. (PI)
8/1/24 → 7/31/25
Project: A - Government Institution › b - National Science and Technology Council
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能源生態學：布農族（臺灣卓溪鄉）和倫比族（美國北卡羅來納州羅伯森縣）之永續性經驗實徵比較研究(1/2)
Powell, D. E. (PI)
8/1/24 → 7/30/25
Project: A - Government Institution › b - National Science and Technology Council
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新聘教師研究補助
Powell, D. E. (PI)
11/1/23 → 10/31/24
Project: B - Project of TMU › g - Research Grants for Newly Hired Faculty
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Advancing an Environmental Justice-Centered Approach to Understanding Cumulative Impacts: Community-Engaged Analysis of Industrialized Biogas Development from Rural Eastern North Carolina
Witter, R., Woods, C. G., Legerton, M., Emanuel, R. E., White-Williamson, S., Chavis, D., Currie, J., Koonce, D. M., Powell, D. E., Grooms, S., Tuberty, S., Hendren, C. O. & Sugg, M. M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Environmental Justice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Indigenous Political Ecologies: Centering Sovereignty and Relationality
Powell, D. E. & Clint Carroll, 2025, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology. Hope, J., Apostolopoulou, E. & Collins, A. (eds.). New York: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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The Promises and Pitfalls of “Clean Energy Transitions”: Introduction to the Special Issue
Powell, D. E. & De Pree, T. A., 2025, In: Environment and Society. 16, 1, p. 1-12 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Transit of Transition: Three Conditions
Powell, D. E., Sept 2025, Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies. Anna Willow & Bürge Abiral (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Climate Change in a time of COVID-19: Living and Transforming the Syndemic in the Navajo Nation,
Powell, D. E., 2024, Stranger than Paradise: Reconfiguring Globalization.. S. & Liao., H.-H. (eds.). Taipei, p. 115 144 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review