[1] His scholarship centers on how climate and environmental science interfaces with Indigenous knowledge systems.
Ranco received his BA in anthropology, with honors, and classical studies from Dartmouth College in 1993.
[6] Ranco sits as a joint Associate Professor for the Department of Anthropology and in Native American Programs at the University of Maine.
He also sits as the Coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine since 2009.
[8] Prior to these appointments he sat as the Chair of Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 2001-2002.