About
I’m an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and writer working across environmental history, environmental anthropology, geography, political ecology, blue humanities, and critical ocean studies. I earned my PhD in Geography at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. I’m an Assistant Professor of Marine Studies in the School of Language, Culture and Society at Oregon State University.
My research, teaching, and community engagement interests center around past, present, and future relationships between nature, environment, and society. The core aim of my work is to contribute to shaping more socially just and ecologically resilient futures. My first book, which follows the migration of gray whales along the North American Pacific Coast, will be published in 2027 with the Oceans in Depth Series at the University of Chicago Press. I’m also a member of the inaugural editorial team for the H-Oceans network.
Education
PhD, Geography, University of Cambridge
MSc, Environment, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh
BA, American Studies, Carleton College
Contact: guascoa [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
Full CV available upon request.
