Ryan Mann-Hamilton

LaGuardia Community College

Ryan Mann-Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Social Science Department at CUNY LaGuardia. He also serves as a faculty member in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology with a concentration in Africana Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center and holds both an M.S. in Environmental Systems and a B.A. in International/Global Studies from Humboldt State University. 

With extensive experience in land and marine conservation projects throughout the Caribbean, Dr. Mann-Hamilton actively engages in social and environmental justice activism across the Americas. He has contributed to the preservation and study of the history of African American immigrants in Samaná, Dominican Republic, through the We Choose Freedom digital collection, which includes a curated selection of bibliographies, correspondence, photographs, documents, and manuscripts spanning from 1824 to 2024.

His academic work explores topics such as migration, tourism, development, environmental justice, community-centered research, climate change, coral reef conservation, fisheries management, environmental justice and appropriate technologies. Additionally, he is a founding member of the AfroLatin@ Forum, and the Institute for Socio-Ecological Research (ISER Caribe).