KATE MAGARGAL

Kate is an Environmental Anthropologist and Associate Professor (Lecturer) at the University of Utah Honors College. Her research and teaching explore human behavioral ecology with a focus on human energy systems, local and Indigenous ecological knowledge, ethnobotany, and artificial light at night. She focuses on applied research that takes a transdisciplinary approach to teaching and research. Kate is a community engaged scholar who centers relationships between contemporary social issues, students, and research projects. Kate has facilitated such connections in the classroom, in the research lab, during field work, and in communities throughout Utah and Navajo Nation. Kate earned her PhD in 2019. Previously, she earned her MS in Anthropology at UU in 2014 and a BA in Anthropology at University of Arizona, Tucson in 2004. She spent the intervening years working for the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management.