Student Profile

Erik Patton-Sharpe

BA Candidate, Black Studies and Environmental Science

About

Erik Patton-Sharpe was born and raised in Wilson, North Carolina. He is a fourth year student double majoring in Black Studies and Environmental Science; minoring in Religious Studies. He enjoys studying the many shared connections between African spirituality and environmentalism, including ethnobotany, food sovereignty, and ecospirituality.

 

Works

project

Strange Fruit: The Necroecology of Black Subsistence Farming

Strange Fruit: The Necroecology of Black Subsistence Farming

The agricultural wisdom of a community farm in Conetoe, North Carolina

news

RRD Research Collaborators Screen Shorts at 2020 Virginia Film Festival

RRD Research Collaborators Screen Shorts at 2020 Virginia Film Festival