WERNKELAB.ORG

SARL is the research laboratory of Steven Wernke (Associate Professor of Anthropology), who established the lab in 2007. Our diverse team pursues insights into human social dynamics over a range of spatial and temporal scales through geospatial modeling and analysis. We investigate the political and historical ecology of colonialism, the co-production of communities, states, and their (built) environments, processes of human-environment interaction and landscape dynamics over varied spatio-temporal scales, and the phenomenology of place, among other themes. Much of our research engages these topics in the context of the traumatic social, political, economic, and demographic transformations wrought by the Spanish invasion and colonization of the Americas.