Student Information
Graduate Student
Anthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
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; loves science, film, music, literature; and interactive and immersive media like video games and other audiovisual arts.
Education
M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology, Arizona State University
B.A. Sociology & Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
Research Interests
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.
Research Activity
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
Presentations
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.
Honors / Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024-2027
Professional Associations
American Association of Geographers
Service
Spring 2024: Postdoctoral Search Committee, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative