Rate My Professor Darcie DeAngelo

Darcie DeAngelo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, where she joined the faculty in 2024. She previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. From 2023 to 2024, she held the Annie Clark Tanner Fellowship in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Justice at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. She is a former Wilson China Fellow and served on the policy-scholar team at the Mansfield-Luce Asia Foundation. DeAngelo was formerly Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Visual Anthropology Review. In 2024, she received the Wenner-Gren Fejos Ethnographic Film Fellowship to support work on a feature-length film about landmine detection rats.

DeAngelo is a medical anthropologist trained in sensory ethnography, with research centered on landmine detection industries in Cambodia, human-animal relations, environmental anthropology, and visual anthropology. Her book How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia was published by the University of California Press in 2024. Her second book, In Defense of Rats, is forthcoming from Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton. In 2025, she received the Julian Steward Book Award for the best ethnography of the year in environmental anthropology from the Anthropology and Environment Society. She teaches courses including environmental anthropology and seminars on topics such as pests, pets, and parasites. Her professional email address is deangelo@ualberta.ca.