Kyrstin Mallon Andrews is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. A cultural anthropologist specializing in environmental and medical anthropology, she has conducted ethnographic research since 2015 among diver fishermen in the Dominican Republic, exploring how changing environments affect health and perceptions of risk. Her work explores the relationships between fisheries management organizations and Afro-Dominican communities who dive deeper into changing seas. In addition to her academic writing, Mallon Andrews is also the author of several photo essays and a short documentary about the risks of freediving in changing seas. Her award-winning fictional work has appeared in Anthropology and Humanism. Most recently, her research focuses on maritime border crossings, illegal fishing, and environmental law in the waters between the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

When she is not working (and sometimes even when she is working), Kyrstin spends her time surfing, free diving, trail running, and doing yoga – usually in the presence of non-human people like fish, seals, sharks, dogs, stingrays, birds and sometimes bears. She is unsure if they like her company as much as she likes theirs. She also likes to think deeply (maybe too deeply) about tv shows, films, and Bad Bunny’s political potentials.