Shane A. Scaggs

Shane A. Scaggs studies how small-scale farming and food-sharing communities organize themselves and adapt to environmental and social change, with a particular focus on swidden (rotational slash-and-burn) agriculture, labor cooperation, and food insecurity. This work combines field data, ecological measurements, and computational modeling (such as complex adaptive systems and Bayesian statistics) to understand human decision-making, resource sharing, and resilience to disturbances like extreme weather or land-use change. Students would likely engage with mixed quantitative methods spanning human ecology, anthropology, and data science.

Publication output was steady at 1-2 papers per year for most of the last decade but increased sharply in 2025, suggesting growing recent research activity.

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