RESEARCH PROFILE
Dr. Anaís Roque Antonetty
Her research examines how food, energy, and water insecurity affects household health and wellbeing, particularly during disasters and infrastructure failures.

FEWtures · Puerto Rico
Duke University · Environmental Justice
Food · Energy · Water
Academic biography
Anaís Roque Antonetty is an environmental social scientist. Her work studies resource insecurity and its effects on the health, wellbeing, and recovery capacity of households and communities. She examines food, energy, and water systems together and the inequalities that shape access to them.
Her research in Puerto Rico and the United States combines fieldwork, surveys, and participatory methods. Working with communities, she examines social vulnerability, disaster experiences, and local responses to interruptions in essential services.
Research areas
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She studies how the lack or interruption of food, water, and energy affects households' everyday lives, health, and wellbeing.
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She examines how environmental burdens and infrastructure systems relate to unequal access to essential resources and to public policy decisions.
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She analyzes how households and communities prepare for, experience, and recover from disasters and cascading service failures.
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She uses participatory research, Photovoice, community mapping, and other methods that recognize communities as collaborators in producing knowledge.
Current research and projects
FEWtures
Collaborative research on food, energy, water, health, and resilience in Puerto Rico.
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Energy insecurity and health
Research on power outages, social vulnerability, and the consequences of electricity interruptions for households and communities.
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Disaster recovery
Research on resource insecurity and community responses after hurricanes and other events.
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Water and community research
Participatory work on water security, governance, and water reuse.
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Education and affiliations
Ph.D. in Environmental Social Sciences
Arizona State University · 2021
M.A.
Arizona State University · 2019
B.A.
University of Puerto Rico · 2017
John Hope Franklin Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice · Environmental Social Systems · Nicholas School of the Environment · Duke University
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