Dylan Diaz-Infante
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School of Human Evolution and Social Change 900 S. Cady Mall Room 341 Tempe, AZ 85281
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Student Information
Graduate StudentAnthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Dylan is a PHD candidate in sociocultural anthropology studying economic, medical, and cultural aspects of water insecurity in Arizona. His work in affiliation with Arizona Water For All examines how border communities without piped water infrastructure cope with water insecurity through social infrastructures called moral economies. He is also interested in the effects of climate change and rising heat on water-insecure populations and is currently conducting a study on the role of water insecurity in heat-induced medical emergencies throughout metropolitan Phoenix. Dylan is an avid hiker; loves science, film, music, literature; and interactive and immersive media like video games and other audiovisual arts.
M.A. 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
Castro-Diaz, L., Wutich, A., Peek, L., Adams, R. M., Lopez, M. C., Moran, E., Nwadiaru, O. V., Harper, K., Action For Water Equity Consortium, Amazon Energy, ELEVATE, & CONVERGE. (2026). Participatory convergence: Four cases for conducting convergent research using community-based approaches. Environmental Science & Policy, 180, 104396.
Thomson, P., Beresford, M., Jordão, C., Medina-Ramírez, O., Neems, S., Salcedo Serrano, D., Wutich, A., & Arizona Water for All Consortium. (2026). Addressing Failing Water Systems: A Qualitative Protocol for Intervention Research on Water Insecurity. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 25.
Wutich, A., Brewis, A., Thomson, P., Beresford, M., & White, D. D. (2025). Ethical challenges of managed retreat from centralized water systems. Human Organization, 1–4. doi: 10.1080/00187259.2025.2499679
Summer 2026: Qualitative Analyst & Research Supervisor, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
Spring 2026: Lead, High School Social Science Research Intensive, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Summer 2025: Transcription Supervisor & Researcher, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative
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. 2025. "Preliminary findings from ongoing research on the role of water in heat injuries in metro Phoenix, AZ." Research presented at the annual Summer Research and Fieldwork Symposium, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, September 5.
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.
University Graduate Fellowship Milestone Award, 2026
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Professional Development Award, 2026-2027
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
University Graduate Fellowship Milestone Award, 2025
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Professional Development Award, 2025-2026
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024-2029
National Science Foundation
Serving University Needs Award, 2024
Arizona State University
American Anthropological Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Geographers
Society for Applied Anthropology
Spring 2024: Postdoctoral Search Committee, Arizona Water For All, Arizona Water Innovation Initiative