Salvador Zárate is a cultural anthropologist who studies Latinx migrant labor and ecology in Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. Zárate’s current research on Orange County weed abatement is funded by the Haynes Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, and seeks to incorporate Latinx weed abatement workers as experts in the battle against wildfire risk. Follow him on Twitter @sezarate25.
In Southern California, an anthropologist’s research aims to illuminate his late father’s work of weed abatement. He’s learning how crews of migrant Latinx workers bring deep environmental knowledge to stop destructive fires at the wildland-urban interface.
