Hi! I’m Nick Caverly. I work as assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research bridges critical approaches to racial capitalism, technologies, and environments to understand how structural inequities become routinized, as well as what people do to change them. I focus on how the dynamics of justice and injustice become embedded through the infrastructural landscapes of cities in the United States.
My scholarly writing is published in Anthropological Quarterly, Politics and Space, Antipode, Progess in Energy, and other journals. I have also written for public audiences in venues like Anthropology News and Somatosphere. My book, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures will be published by Stanford University Press in 2025. This research has benefited from grants and fellowships from the US National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and US Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
I earned my PhD in anthropology with a focus in science, technology, and society from the University of Michigan in 2020.