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Eric Taylor

Advisor: Sheppard (Tree Ring)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant
Eric Taylor
520-621-6000
taylor2@arizona.edu
Pronouns:
He/Him/His

Eric is a geographer and environmental anthropologist specializing in the late Holocene in the Mediterranean, with detailed historical experience between 1850–1945 CE. He carries a Ph.D. in Anthropology and graduate certificates in dendrochronology (via disturbance ecology) and geographic information systems (GIS) from the University of Arizona, plus additional degrees in Asian Studies. Eric is a certified UAS (drone) pilot and has conducted many kinds of fieldwork in multiple US states, Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, and Mongolia. He is also an artist who occasionally makes digital paintings.

Research Interests

Eric studies the history of natural disasters and hazards in the Mediterranean —especially earthquakes, co-seismic landslides, and fire— as well as how societies respond to them. Through dendroseismology he contributes to earthquake catalogs in Italy and Turkey, while through geography and history he explores past incidences of disaster authoritarianism.  More broadly, Eric’s work regards environmental adaptation, problems of time and perspective in scientific research, and methods that bridge the past and present.

Awards and Recognitions

  • Alsie French and Edmund Schulman Memorial Scholarship Award, 2021 Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
  • College of Science Teaching and Mentoring Award Nominee, 2020 Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
  • Tree-Ring Times, December 2017 Issue Photography Contest: 1st Place Award, 2017 Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Newsletter
  • Anthropology in Action Annual Photography Contest: 3rd Place Award, 2012 University of Arizona School of Anthropology