Projects
Martu Ecological Anthropology Project is a long-term NSF-sponsored project with Indigenous communities in Australia’s Western Desert, investigating contemporary and pre-colonial subsistence decisions, land use, fire treatment, and their implications for spatial and temporal diversity in domestic and biotic organization.
Comparative Wests Project is a broad interdisciplinary, inter-institutional project concerned with understanding the construction and transformation of environments that emerge from interaction between Native peoples and invading settler colonialism.
Partnerships
Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
The Spatial History Project, Stanford University
The Woods Institute's Environmental Ventures Project, Stanford University
Collaborators and Lab Affiliates
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian Codding, Nyalangka Taylor, James Holland Jones, Curtis Taylor, Elspeth Ready, Michael Price, James O’Connell, David Zeanah, Eleanor Power, Frank K. Lake, Ron W. Goode, Don L. Hankins, Jared D. Aldern, Eric A. Smith, Lisa Curran, Brooke Scelza
I am an ecological anthropologist with interests in ethnoarchaeology, resource use ecology, and questions surrounding livelihoods and landscape change in Australia and Western North America. My research focuses on understanding factors that influence interactions between subsistence decisions, social relationships, their archaeological signatures and environmental consequences in Indigenous communities.
Senior Research Scientist
Douglas Bird
Contact
Doug Bird
Dept. of Anthropology, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 50
Stanford CA 94305