Devin Flaherty

Devin Flaherty serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio's College of Liberal and Fine Arts. His research investigates attention, care practices, and end-of-life experiences among older adults in disaster-affected Caribbean communities, with primary ethnographic focus on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (2018)

Flaherty's work critically examines how colonial legacies produce social disregard and vulnerability in peripheral regions, particularly during disasters and chronic illness. He analyzes moral projects of care, existential ambivalence in terminal prognoses, and temporal strategies like 'taking it one day at a time,' bridging medical anthropology, disaster studies, and phenomenology of time.

His publication trajectory reveals sustained engagement with St. Croix post-Hurricane Maria, documenting how extraterritorial governance shapes end-of-life care and constructs vulnerability. Key contributions include theorizing attentional shifts in long-term disaster response and the social distribution of care in contexts of chronic disregard.

Flaherty secured $20,000 for 'Anticipating the Next Storm' (2022-2023) to study vulnerability construction in post-Maria St. Croix. While his co-authored publications indicate academic mentorship (e.g., with Christopher Stephan and C. Jason Throop), no formal student advisees are documented in available materials.