Andrew Weitz

Andrew Weitz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University. Dr. Weitz completed his PhD in Integrative Biology in 2018 at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2011 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Weitz also completed postdoctoral research appointments at ETH Zürich (2019) and at Western Washington University (2023) prior to joining the Department of Anthropology.

Dr. Weitz’s research focuses on understanding the past, present, and future of human-ecological interactions, with particular attention to local Coast Salish forests. He takes an integrative approach to this research by utilizing methods in stable isotope biogeochemistry, dendrochronology, paleoclimatology, forest ecophysiology, and comparative morphology.

More broadly, his work focuses on human and environmental evolutionary ecology to advance our understanding of how people have been shaped by environmental change across deep evolutionary timescales, how people have been shaping their local environments throughout more contemporary timescales, and how the ecosystem services that our local environments provide will be impacted in the future in response to anthropogenic climate change.