Dr. Clate Korsant

Roles: Special Guest

Clate is a distinguished cultural, environmental, and visual anthropologist, as well as an accomplished ethnographic filmmaker. Most recently, he served as faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies and affiliated faculty with the department of anthropology at the University of Florida. With five years of involvement in the production of The Way of the Whale, Clate brings a wealth of experience in ethnographic storytelling. His previous film, Lifting the Green Screen (2020), earned critical acclaim, winning the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Mimesis Ethnographic Film Festival. Now in his eighth year of teaching anthropology in higher education, Clate has extensively published on environmental anthropology, political ecology, and ethnographic practice in leading journals such as Globalizations, Streetnotes, and Goldsmiths Anthropology Research Papers. A dedicated advocate for wildlife and socioenvironmental justice, Clate’s work continues to bridge academia, filmmaking, and activism to inspire meaningful change.