Dr. Sabrina Perić, Co-Director

Anthropology and Archaeology, UCalgary

speric@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Sabrina Perić (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. She grew up in Rijeka, Croatia, a deep water tanker port city that is home to a pipeline terminus, an oil refinery and a floating LNG terminal. She has therefore always been interested in the way that societies and their politics are shaped by resource industries. Her current research focuses on understanding the role that individuals and communities play in determining energy transition possibilities through anthropological and visual participatory methods.

Her research has been funded by SSHRC, NSERC, the CFI John Evans Leaders Fund and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. At the Energy Stories Lab, she leads the Storying the Oil Sands and Decarbonizing Prairie Agriculture projects. She also was recently awarded a CFREF Volt-Age grant for a living lab in northern Alberta that aims to transform the monitoring and restoration of ecosystems in the oil sands region through a novel transdisciplinary approach that centres local, traditional knowledges. She is also the author of the Prairie Energies Substack. Dr. Perić received her PhD from Harvard university and her BA from Dartmouth College.