Stefani Crabtree
Environment & Society
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Hours: By AppointmentOffice Location: NR 355
Phone: (435) 797-0813
Email: stefani.crabtree@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Biography
Stefani A. Crabtree is Associate Professor of Social Environmental Modeling in the Department of Environment and Society of the Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Dr. Crabtree holds two Ph.D.s, one from Washington State University (Anthropology, 2016) and one from the Université de Franche-Comté (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et l’Environnement, 2017).
Teaching Interests
Dr. Crabtree is interested in teaching students to learn to see the world in a scientific way, to help students to get over biases and fears when it comes to math and computer programming, and to help students to advance to their own potential for the better understanding of the world and the ways that humans and environments interact.
Research Interests
Dr. Crabtree's current research topics include the human place in ecosystems worldwide, the ability to use the archaeological past to calibrate our understanding of human resilience, and the feedbacks between ecosystem health and human health.
Publications | Books
- Crabtree, S., Paleoclimatology and the early Middle Ages: convergences and divergences.
- Crabtree, S., What Archaeologists Talk About When They Talk About Climate Change..
- Crabtree, S., Understanding Humanity Past and Present via Agent-Based Modeling..
Publications | Book Chapters
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Crabtree, S., (2024). Mechanisms of hunting native megafauna to extinction by Palaeolithic humans on Cyprus..
- Crabtree, S., (2024). Influential Individuals Can Promote Prosocial Practices in Heterogeneous Societies: A Mathematical and Agent-Based Model..
- Crabtree, S., (2024). The Past as a Stochastic Process.
- Crabtree, S., (2024). An agent-based model of hierarchical information-sharing organizations in asynchronous environments.
Professional Journal
Public or Trade Journal
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
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Teaching
Graduate Students Mentored
Dr. Stefani A. Crabtree is an Assistant Professor in Socio-Environmental Modeling in the Department of Environment and Society of the Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. She additionally holds external affiliation at four institutions: The Santa Fe Institute as external Research Fellow, Research Associate at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Fellow at the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Paris, and Research Associate at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. Her research applies complex systems science modeling methodologies (such as agent-based modeling and network science) to problems in social science and ecology. Current research topics include the human place in ecosystems worldwide, the ability to use the archaeological past to calibrate our understanding of human resilience, and the feedbacks between ecosystem health and human health. Crabtree has published in general science and disciplinary journals across social science and ecology, including Nature Human Behaviour, PNAS, Current Anthropology, Ecological Modelling, American Antiquity, Physics Today, Human Ecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Dr. Crabtree holds two Ph.D.s, one from Washington State University (Anthropology, 2016) and one from the Université de Franche-Comté (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et l’Environnement, 2017).
Dr. Crabtree regularly teaches ENVS 4100: Agent-based Modeling of Human Environment Systems and ENVS 6901: Introduction to Methodologies in Social Science.
Dr. Crabtree is interested in bringing on motivated Ph.D. students who want to use network analysis and agent-based modeling to understand the human-environmental interface. Please contact her directly at stefani.crabtree@usu.edu
Graduate Students
Evan Holt- Ph.D. Environment and Society
Ray Kahler- Ph.D. Environment and Society
Patrick Kelly- Ph.D. Environment and Society