Margiana Petersen-Rockney

I am an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Montana. I was previously a graduate student and postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. 

I study how rural agricultural communities experience and respond to climate change. I'm interested in water and land use policy, climate adaptation and mitigation, and rural livelihoods. My book, forthcoming from Yale University Press, investigates how farmers and ranchers navigate cultural expectations and political identities as they adapt to climate change.

I grew up home-schooled on a dairy goat farm and ran a vegetable and livestock farm during and after college. While farming, I founded the Young Farmer Network. Before graduate school, I worked with immigrant and refugee farmers in agricultural nonprofits.

Here are my publications, and here is my Google Scholar page.