PhD Candidate I am a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) and part of the Human and Environment Change Lab (https://www.heclab.org) advised by Dr. Don Nelson. I am in the final stages of dissertation writing and am currently in the job market looking to start in August 2026. I have teaching experience as an instructor of record at the Oxford College of Emory and as a Teaching Assistant for Introductory and upper-level courses at UGA. During doctoral fieldwork, I employed diverse methods to understand how the politics of environment and pollution are enmeshed in people's everyday lives in the urban-environment landscape of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My work engages with urban inequality, environmental justice and more-than-human relations in Latin America. Of note: Basilio, Raul L. P. (2024). Vivendo Entre Humanos e Jacarés no Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro. Revista Mapinguary. Vol., 1 N., 1. Universidade Federal do Pará. (Portuguese Version) Seigerman, Cydney K., S. Kyle McKay, Raul Basilio, Shelly A. Biesel, Jon Hallemeier, Andressa V. Mansur, Candice Piercy, et al. (2023). Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 59(2): 281–298. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13086. DePuy, W., Weger, J., Foster, K., Bonanno, A. M., Kumar, S., Lear, K., Basilio, R., & German, L. (2021). Environmental governance: Broadening ontological spaces for a more livable world. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211018565 Research Research Areas: Cultural Anthropology Research Interests: water, pollution, waste, environmental perceptions, urban anthropology Labs: Human and Environmental Change Lab Education Education: B.A. Anthropology major, Sociology minor University of South Alabama
