Anastasia Quintana
Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: Bren Hall 4322
Email: anastasiaquintana@ucsb.edu
Web: Website
GS: Google Scholar
RG: ResearchGate
Twitter: @commonertasha
Anastasia (she/her) is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences studying what sparks collective action in small-scale fisheries and ocean conservation. She asks questions like: when do fishing cooperatives prevent overfishing? And, how can marine protection empower fisherfolk instead of marginalizing them? She uses theory and methods from anthropology, common-pool resource theory, political ecology, and human geography, though collaborates interdisciplinarily on most projects with ecologists, economists, and oceanographers. Her postdoctoral project has developed a new tool to diagnose compliance in marine protected areas, which uses archetypes of compliance rather than a binary (legal/illegal). Most days you can find her playing beach volleyball, dancing bachata, or painting goofy animal portraits.