Hillary Smith
Contact Information
Email: hillary.smith@maine.edu
Education
Degrees:
Ph.d. Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University, 2021
M.A., Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2015
B.A., Geography; Anthropology, University of Florida, 2009
Biography
Hillary Smith is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research and teaching examine the governance of commons, climate adaptation, diverse economies, and food systems. At the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, she explores how individuals, communities, and institutions adapt to environmental and social change, with a focus on fisheries, aquaculture, and marine policy from a food systems lens.
Research Interests
Common-pool resources, commoning, diverse economies, small-scale fisheries and aquaculture, environmental governance, food systems, climate adaptation, marine conservation
Publications
For a current list of publications, please see Hillary’s Google Scholar Citations
