Student Information
Graduate StudentAnthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Dylan Diaz-Infante is a rising second-year PhD student in sociocultural anthropology, studying causes and interventions for water insecurity in Arizona. His work with Arizona Water For All examines communities without physical water infrastructure cope with water insecurity in the form of social infrastructures called moral economies. Dylan is an avid hiker and amateur boulderer; loves science, film, music, literature; and interactive and immersive media like video games and other audiovisual arts.
M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology, Arizona State University
B.A. Sociology & Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
Water insecurity and cross-cultural water conservation methods: Climate change’s effects on everyday water use, subsistence, food and luxury crop farming; U.S.-Mexico sociohydrology, anthropology of households, bureaucracy, critique of structural power, and political ecology.
Graduate Research Associate, Arizona Water For All
Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
Spring 2024: Sample Coder & Research Analyst, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
Fall 2023: Sample Coder & Research Analyst, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
Diaz-Infante, Dylan. 2024. "Moral economies for water along the U.S.-Mexico border." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Waikiki, HI, April 16.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024-2029
ASU Serving University Needs Award, Fall 2024
American Association of Geographers
Spring 2024: Postdoctoral Search Committee, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative