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Michelle Harangody


 

Michelle Harangody

Program Coordinator
MSc University of Miami (2017), MA University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2020)

Moore Hall 215A
msharan@hawaii.edu
(808) 956-0926

Michelle Harangody is the Program Coordinator for a collaborative initiative with the Department of Asian Studies advancing AAPI voices in environmental humanities and environmental justice. Michelle holds a BA and MSc from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and a MA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a PhD candidate in human geography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research interests include marine policy and conservation, coral reef management, political ecology, and community resilience.

Research Interests

Social-ecological systems; community-led climate resilience and adaptation; Hawaiʻi; marine policy; ocean conservation and sovereignty; coral reef management; coral reef restoration; political ecology; science and technology studies; climate adaptation infrastructure; just futures; militarism in the Pacific

Recent Publications

  • Harangody, M., M. Blaich Vaughan, L. S. Richmond, and K. Kilikina Luebbe. 2022. Hālana ka manaʻo: place-based connection as a source of long-term resilience. Ecology and Society 27(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13555-270421
  • Carlson, K. M., Mora, C., Xu, J., Setter, R. O., Harangody, M., Franklin, E. C.,  Kantar, M. B., Lucas, M., Menzo, Z., Spirandelli, D., Schanzenbach, D., Warr, C. C., Wong, A., & Businger, S. (2022). Global rainbow distribution under current and future climates. Global Environmental Change, 77, 102604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102604

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