Dominic Piacentini
Dominic Piacentini is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology & Environmental Policy. He received an MA in Anthropology & Environmental Policy from the University of Maine in 2019 and a BA in Anthropology from The College of Wooster. Dominic’s research interests include resource use and access rights in contested property regimes, the public use of private space, dispossession, extractive industry and energy development, wild-growing foods and medicines, and plant–human relations. His dissertation follows the organization and construction of major pipeline infrastructure in Appalachia, the impacts these projects have had on land use and land ownership, and the formal and informal claims people, plants, and pipelines make to land and property.
Dominic grew up in Central Ohio. Before moving to Maine for graduate school, he lived in West Virginia as an AmeriCorps service member with the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area.
Dominic is a research assistant at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.