Daniel Polk
Postdoctoral Scholar
2015 - Present
Email: dpolk@stanford.edu
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2014, Anthropology
B.A., University of California, Riverside, 2008, History
Daniel Polk received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 2014 from Princeton University. His research looks at the politics of water in the borderlands of California. His dissertation is an ethnographic and historical study of the largest rural-to-urban "water transfer" in U.S. history, with a focus on the cultural and political ecology of regional water management. He is interested in how natural forces and events become embedded in social systems and how marginal places and people become key for innovating resource management practices that are sustainable.
