Black Excellence: Kristina Douglass
https://people.climate.columbia.edu/users/profile/kristina-douglass
Kristina Douglass is an award-winning archaeologist whose research explores the dynamic co-evolution of people, land, and seascapes. She is a 2025 MacArthur Fellow and a 2021 Carnegie Fellow, and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Climate in Columbia University’s Climate School. Before joining Columbia, she was the Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Penn State University. Douglass is also a Smithsonian Institution Research Associate and a leading voice in climate-centered archaeology.