Kristina Douglass | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Dartmouth University, Phillips Academy Andover [1] |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellow, 2021 Carnegie Fellow [2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | Columbia Climate School, Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | An Archaeological Investigation of Settlement and Resource Exploitation Patterns in the Velondriake Marine Protected Area, Southwest Madagascar, ca. 900 BC to AD 1900 (2016) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roderick J. McIntosh |
Kristina Guild Douglass is an American archeologist. In 2025, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellows award for "investigating how past human societies and environments co-evolved and adapted to climate variability." [3] [4]
As a child, Douglass moved all over the world living in Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda and Ukraine, and spent several years in Madagascar. [3] She then attended Phillips Andover and completed an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth University. [1] [5] [6] She went on to graduate work at Yale University, doing much of her Ph.D. field work in Madagascar. [3] She taught at Pennsylvania State University, and in 2022, joined Columbia Climate School, the first graduate school in the USA focused on climate change, as its inaugural faculty member. [7] [8] [9] [10] Douglass' work investigates how people pass on knowledge over time. [7]
I've always felt that humans are unique in our ability to share information and transmit that information over many generations. It's what has helped our species evolve to occupy any habitat on the planet.
— Kristina G. Douglass, "Kristina G. Douglass to Join Columbia Climate School as First Faculty Hire", The Spirit (2022) [7]