Meryl Shriver-Rice, PhD
Dr. Meryl Shriver-Rice is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and archaeologist with expertise in decolonial ethics, environmental media, ethnobiology, public anthropology, environmental justice, decolonial studies and re-storying, and community-based participatory research. She is the author of Decolonial Approaches to Data Ethics and Re-Storying: From Biocultural Landscapes at Risk to Archiving the Dead (with Sarah Hiepler-Basty, 2026) and founding Director of the . Prior to joining HL黑料门不打烊, she was the Head of Research for the Seminole Tribe of Florida at the and the Director of Research for the Institute of American Indian Studies (IAIS) where she oversaw NAGPRA efforts. Dr. Shriver-Rice is also an Affiliated Researcher with Florida State University's (NAIS Center). Prior to taking a role with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, she designed and taught all core courses for the Master's program in Environment, Culture and Media in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami, and was an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers University.
Education
BA, Augustana College, University of Miami
MA, University of Nottingham, UK
PhD, University of Miami
Research & Publications
Her research focuses on how diverse human-environment interactions reveal the ways that people understand, value, and relate to other species and their surrounding environments. In particular, her research has examined how sociocultural concepts of belonging and heritage are historically grounded and entangled with ecological knowledge, inter-generational experiences with landscape, and environmental management strategies.
Her current book (with anthropologist Sarah Hiepler-Basty, Wiley Blackwell, 2026) examines decolonial approaches to digital data use and re-storying interventions within heritage storytelling, wildlife conservation efforts, community-based outreach, museum and park archival strategies and interpretation, data sovereignty efforts, and public exhibition of ancestors. She is co-founding Editor-in-Chief of the (with Hunter Vaughan) which bridges work in environmental studies, climate justice, and science communication focusing on the role of new and emerging digital media in our understanding and perception of the environment.
Public Events
Research Ethics Workshop on Working with Indigenous Communities
With Dr. Bill Locascio, Dave Scheidecker, and Joseph Gilbert on behalf of Seminole Tribe of Florida Tribal Historic Preservation Office and ATTK at Florida State University's Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies and Florida International University's Global Indigenous Forum, 2026.
Centering Indigenous Knowledge: Indigenous-Led Education for Non-Indigenous Publics
With Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason, Dr. Rose Taylor, Richard Cowes, Dr. Phillip Mendenhall, and Vera Longbow Sheehan. Annual Roundtable for the Institute for American Indian Studies Museum, 2025.
Climate and Energy: Human Dimensions and Environmental Communications
With J.T. Roane, Kevin Rhiney, Atif Akin, Danielle Falzon, and Natalie Romero. Rutgers University, Climate and Energy Institute, 2025.
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