Kelsey Merreck Wagner is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology pursuing specializations in Animal Studies and Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change. She has a B.A. from Western Michigan University in Studio Art (2013) and an M.A. from Appalachian State University in Sustainability. (2018). She began fieldwork in Chiang Mai, Thailand with ethical elephant ecotourism and community-based conservation, and later moved to Cambodia to explore interspecies relations and community conservation education. She is interested in human-elephant conflict and the effect of corruption and neoliberalism on conservation and environmental movements. Her current work uses art and activism to explore issues of human-elephant conflict and relations in Southeast Asian contexts.

Her recent environmental art is available at kelseymerreckwagner.com/portfolio