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Susan Alexandra Crate is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. As an environmental and cognitive anthropologist, she has worked with indigenous communities in Siberia since 1988. Her recent research has focused on understanding local perceptions and adaptations of Viliui Sakha communities in the face of unprecedented climate change—a research agenda that has expanded to Canada, Peru, Wales, Kiribati, Mongolia and the Chesapeake Bay. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and two monographs, Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability (AltaMira Press, 2006) and Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia (University of Arizona Press, 2021), and she is co-editor of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions (Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009), and Anthropology and Climate Change: From Actions to Transformations (Routledge, 2016). She also served on the American Anthropology Association’s Task Force on Climate Change, and as lead author on the IPCC’s Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.