Victoria Ramenzoni

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2024-2025
Dr. Ramenzoni is an environmental anthropologist who studies coastal community adaptation. She was born in Argentina, where she completed her B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She moved to the U.S. in 2007 to pursue her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. As part of her doctoral research, she lived on Flores in Eastern Indonesia for about two years, exploring environmental uncertainty among artisanal fishing communities.

After graduating, Dr. Ramenzoni spent about two years at NOAA as a fellow and then as a contractor under the chief economist in the social science team. In late 2015, she relocated to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. This allowed her to visit Cuba and develop a long-term collaboration with colleagues for Universidad de La Habana.

She came to Rutgers in the fall of 2018 after I joined the Department of Human Ecology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick. For the past few years, Dr. Ramenzoni's scholarship and teaching have alternated with fieldwork in Indonesia, Cuba, and the U.S.