Christina Callicott PhD

Biography

Dr. Christina M. Callicott is a medical and environmental anthropologist with a strong interest in Indigenous cultures, knowledges, and socio-political movements. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida, as well as graduate certificates in Tropical Conservation and Development and Latin American Studies. She also earned a B.A. in Women Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

From 2022 to 2024, Dr. Callicott served as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As STP Fellow, Dr. Callicott served as Executive Secretary for the U.S. National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Indigenous Knowledge, an interagency body tasked with facilitating implementation of the Biden administration’s guidance on the use of Indigenous Knowledge in federal research, policy, and decision-making. In her role at the U.S. Agency for International Development as a first-year fellow, Dr. Callicott served as point of contact on Indigenous issues for the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, helping to improve policy and programming involving Indigenous Peoples. As a second-year fellow, she joined the Arctic section of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, working in international science diplomacy with a focus on research policy pertaining to Indigenous peoples and communities.

Dr. Callicott also works as a consultant in the field of cultural resource management, and she is the founder of Columbine Consulting, LLC. She has performed research and reporting for the U.S. National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, for regional tribes, and for a conservation nonprofit, and has helped facilitate tribal consultation for the City of Boulder, Colorado. She has a background in journalism and deep expertise as an educator in both indoor and outdoor classrooms. Her teaching experience includes Fort Lewis College (Ethnobotany of the Southwest, Indigenous Environmental Movements), and the University of Florida (Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, The Good Life, Language and Culture). She spent numerous summers as an outdoor educator for the Colorado Outward Bound School, North Carolina Outward Bound, and the Women’s Wilderness Institute. She continues to teach skiing and run rivers in her spare time.

Courses Taught

Introduction to General Anthropology
Cultural Ecology
Native North America
Medical Anthropology
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Publications

Callicott, Christina. 2020. Music, Plants, and Medicine: Lamista Shamanism in the Age of Internationalization; Department of Anthropology, University of Florida Gainesville.
Callicott, Christina and Catherine Tucker. 2018. “Marketing Organic Foods in the United States.” Organic Food, Farming and Culture. Janet Chrzan and Jacqueline Ricotta, editors. 265-276. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Callicott, Christina. 2017. “Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca,” parts 1-7. Savage Minds. https://savageminds.org/author/ccallicott/. Last modified May 24, 2017.
Callicott, Christina. 2016. “Introduction to the Special Issue: Ayahuasca, Plant-Based Spirituality, and the Future of Amazonia.” Anthropology of Consciousness 27(2):113-20.
Callicott, Christina. 2013. “Interspecies Communication in the Western Amazon: Music as a Form of Conversation between Plants and People.” 2013. European Journal of Ecopsychology 4:32-43.

Reports

Austin, Rebecca, and Christina Callicott. (In Progress) Ethnographic Overview and Assessment of the Golden Spike National Historic Park, Ogden, Utah. Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO on behalf of the U.S. National Park Service, Washington, DC.
Callicott, Christina. 2024. Recommendations for Improved Engagement with Indigenous Communities and Knowledges at the National Science Foundation. Prepared for the
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
Yaquinto, Jessica, Erica Walters, and Christina Callicott. 2024. Ethnographic Landscape Study of the Northwest Piceance Creek Basin. Prepared for the White River Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Prepared by Living Heritage Anthropology, LLC. Cortez, Colorado.
Callicott, Christina, Bette Loiselle and Patricia Delamonica Sampaio. 2015. Tropical Conservation and Development Program 2014 Alumni Survey Report. Gainesville: UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program. http://uftcd.org/wp content/uploads/2017/10/TCD.AlumniSurveyReport-2015.pdf

Public Scholarship

Blog Posts

Callicott, Christina, and Biniam Iyob. 2023. “Partnering for Change: Highlighting the Successes of USAID-Funded Agricultural Policy Research and Capacity Building.” Agrilinks. April 3. https://agrilinks.org/post/partnering-change-highlighting-successes- usaid-funded-agricultural-policy-research-and
Callicott, Christina, ed. 2021. Indigenous Environmental Movements, a collection of student-written Arc-GIS story maps. Fort Lewis College, May 2021. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/14e67f5dba634c05a96369e4f64d7f04
Callicott, Christina. 2017. “Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca,” parts 1-7. Savage Minds. https://savageminds.org/author/ccallicott/. Last modified May 24, 2017.

Popular Press—Selected Publications

Callicott, Christina. 2021. “Reconciliation and Resilience: The Dark History of Native American Boarding Schools.” Telluride Magazine 2021 (winter), 56-57.
———. 2021. “Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related. Native Americans rise in response to 2020s crises.” Telluride Magazine 2021 (summer), 60-64. https://online.pubhtml5.com/vedz/agod/#p=60
———. 2020. “Protect Our Winters: Sports Celebrities Help Champion Climate Advocacy.” Telluride Magazine 2020 (winter), 86-87.

External Professional Affiliations

Columbine Consulting, LLC (columbineconsulting.com)