My Biography
Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker and co-founder of the field of Energy Humanities. His current research foci include (1) the politics of energy transition and decarbonization, (2) green infrastructure, environmental justice and civil power, and (3) climate adaptation in coastal cities. In addition to serving on the AAA Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the Rice Sustainability Institute, he co-directs Rice University’s Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience (CFAR) and will direct its forthcoming Social Design Lab (SDL). Working together with Cymene Howe, their design for the world’s first glacier memorial was named a Finalist for a 2020 Beazley Design of the Year Award by the London Design Museum. The same project inspired The Economist to create its first-ever obituary for a non-human. Boyer’s recent research has been supported by NSF, NOAA, the Berggruen Institute, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, among others. The author of nine books and volumes and more than 100 research articles, Boyer’s latest book is No More Fossils (U Minnesota Press, 2023), an analysis of the fossil gerontocracy that seeks to hold the world in its ecocidal grasp and the coming transition from petroculture to electroculture.