Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

• 2025 Fall
  • ANT 111 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • ANT 400/600 Selected Topics - Caribbean Mobilities
• 2025 Spring
  • ANT 481/681 Ethnographic Techniques
• 2024 Fall
  • ANT 111 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• 2024 Spring
  • MAX 132 Global Community
  • ANT 357 Health, Healing, and Culture

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews is assistant professor of anthropology. Her research focuses on medical and environmental anthropology, the Caribbean, maritime studies, fishing, multispecies, environmental governance, conservation, risk and injury, and the Dominican Republic.

She is working on a book, “Crosscurrents of Health: Understandings of Risk, Environment, and Identity in the Dominican Republic” and has published papers in numerous journals. Mallon Andrews has received honors for her writing, including the Curl Essay Prize from the Royal Anthropological Institute for the 2020 paper, “The Color of Seawater: Color Perception and Environmental Change in Dominican Seascapes,” which is forthcoming in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Prior to joining Syracuse, she was a research consultant for the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center and a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Miami University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2021.

"Crosscurrents of Risk: Navigating Changing Climates, Health, and Conservation in Dominican Seascapes", Sponsored by Syracuse University Humanities Center.

• Journal Articles
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Ecologies of Mistrust: Fish, Fishermen, and the Multispecies Ethics of Ethnographic Authority." American Anthropologist, 2023.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "The Color of Seawater: Color Perception and Environmental Change in Dominican Seascapes." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2023.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Of Care and Patio Praxis." Current Anthropology, 2022.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Ay Vieja." Anthropology and Humanism, 2021.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Catching Air: Risk and Embodied Ocean Health among Dominican Diver Fishermen." Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2021.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Sinks for the Press: Cholera and State Performances of Power at the Dominican Border." Pandemic Perspectives: Responding to COVID-19. Open Anthropology, 2020.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Borderwaters: Conversing with Fluidity at the Dominican Border." Cultural Anthropology, 2019.
• Newspaper Articles
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Ghost Net Busters." Anthropology News (website), 2021.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Give an Ethnographer a Fish – The Social Anatomy of Debt." Anthropology News (website), 2019.
  • Mallon Andrews, K., "Parrotfish: The Charisma of Conservation in the Caribbean." Platypus: The CASTAC Blog, 2018.

Caliban Futures: Exploring Caribbean Human-Animal Ecologies, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, "Death of a Manatee: The Forensics of Ecotourism in the Dominican Republic" (December 1, 2025)

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series, Cornell University, "Catching Air: Risk, Conservation, and Health in Dominican Dive Fishing" (October 21, 2025)

Advanced Seminar: An Oceanic Anthropology for the Near Future, School of Advanced Research (June 7, 2025 - June 13, 2025)

American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, "Death of a Manatee: The Forensics of Ecotourism in the Dominican Republic" (November 21, 2025 - 2025)

Haitian Studies Association Annual Conference, Haitian Studies Association, "Borderwaters: Conversing with Fluidity at the Haitian-Dominican Border" (2023)

World Languages and Cultures Speaker Series, Iowa State University, "A Stamp on the Seafloor: Navigating Risk and Visual Ethnography in Dominican Seascapes" (November 3, 2022)

Culture Club: Graduate Student Invited Speaker Series, Department of Anthropology, "A Stamp on the Seafloor: Documentary Screening and Discussion" (October 28, 2022)

Department of Anthropology Lunchtime Workshop Series, Department of Anthropology, "A Stamp on the Seafloor/Un Sello en el Fondo del mar" (October 19, 2022)

Latin American Studies Association 2022 Congress, "Marine Conservation as Structural Adjustment: A View from Dominican Seascapes" (2022)

Latin American Studies Association 2021 Congress, "Eco-Aesthetics, Parrotfish, and Sand in Dominican Tourism" (2021)

AAA Annual Meetings, "Ecologies of Mistrust: Fish, Fishermen, and the Multispecies Ethics of Ethnographic Authority" (2021)

International Relations Teaching Award, International Relations Undergraduate Program (April, 2023 - 2023)

Steven Polgar Prize , Society for Medical Anthropology (2022 - 2022)

Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Article Prize, Latin American Studies Association (2021)

Curl Essay Prize, Royal Anthropological Institute (2020)

Ethnographic Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Competition, Society for Humanistic Anthropology (2020)