Kaitlyn C. Sisco is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research explores how ecotourism spaces cultivate extraction, vulnerability (e.g., displacement-in-place, precarious livelihoods, housing and land crises), and activism (e.g., ecofeminist, LGBTQIA+, multispecies, art, and land-tenure activism). She focuses on environmental (in)justice, socio-environmental change, aesthetics, and land governance in Argentine Patagonia.

In previous research, Sisco completed a master’s thesis on extractive tourism, precarious experiences, and subaltern activism in El Chaltén, Argentina–a small ecotourism town within Parque Nacional Los Glaciares [Glaciers National Park].

Sisco’s current project follows intersectional and Indigenous ecofeminisms across Andean Patagonia as their activisms manifest in/around ecotourism spaces and national parks.

Sisco holds an MA in Anthropology and a BA in International Studies and Spanish from the University of Mississippi.