Jessica O’Reilly

Jessica O’Reilly is an environmental anthropologist who studies how scientists and policy makers participate in environmental management, both in regard to the Antarctic environment and global climate change. Through participant observation and ethnographic interviews, she examines how people and ideas in science and policy interact, how experts make decisions about matters of concern, and how relationships with the environment inform knowledge production.

Areas of Expertise

Global climate change; environmental management and governance; science, culture and practice; institutions and expertise.