Phillip C. Strickland is currently a graduate student of applied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He earned his BA in anthropology at East Carolina University, where he minored in history. There, he earned certifications in Cultural Resource Management
(CRM) and Forensic Anthropology.

As an applied anthropologist, Strickland practices a holistic, multifaceted, and pragmatic theoretical framework in order to understand the unique challenges facing various communities worldwide.

As a member of the Historic Equity Action Lens (H.E.A.L.) research team, Strickland’s ethnographic analyses provide rich, qualitative data to sufficiently address historic
inequities, local values, and cultural themes. Strickland’s primary interests pertain to human ecological, social, environmental, and public health dilemmas posed by climate change.