Dr. Amelia Moore is an Associate Professor of Environmental Justice in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Prior to that, she was a professor in the Department of Marine Affairs in the College of Environment and Life Sciences at the University of Rhode Island for ten years. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California Berkeley and her B.A. in Environmental Biology from Columbia University. She approaches her research areas through the adaptive lens of feminist studies of science and Black ecologies, building bridges between critical theories of social difference, anthropology, anti-racist and anti-colonial studies, political ecology, and the socioecological sciences.

Amelia is currently involved in projects in the coastal United States, Indonesia, and The Bahamas.