Jun 6th, 2007
Academia
Education
Doctoral candidate, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation (tentative title): “Work, Place, and Class: Industrial Restructuring in a Pacific Northwest Timber-Dependent Community”
M.A., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thesis: “A Place for Class in Environmental Discourse”
B.A. French, Southwest Missouri State University
summa cum laude, University Honors College graduate
International Student Exchange Program Participant, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Research Experience
Doctoral field research on environmentalism, economy, community, and place in Coos Bay, Oregon
Funded by a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Predoctoral Grant
Predoctoral field research on wise-use and environmental activism in western Oregon, USA
Project: “Negotiating the Environment: Activism and the Old-Growth Forests of the Pacific Northwest”
Funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Student Predissertation Field Experience and Ethnographic Research Grant
Publications
2000 “The 2000 Fire Season” (review of White House Report “Managing the Impact of Wildfires on Communities and the Environment”), Anthropology News 41:8 (49).
1996 Review of Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds. Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & LittleWeld Publishers, Inc., 1995. In Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 7(4): 148–149.
Presentations
“History and Debate in the Timber-Dependent Pacific Northwest: Class, Place, and the Environment.” First annual joint meeting of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. Session: “Class, Race, and Environmental History.” Durham, North Carolina. 29 March 2001.
“Past, Present, Future: Struggling with Economic and Environmental Issues in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.” 98th Annual American Anthropological Association Meetings. Anthropology and Environment Session: “Communities, Movements, and Environmental Management: Negotiating the Terms of Debate.” Chicago, Illinois. 21 November 1999.
“Observations on the ‘Timber Wars’ and Industrial Restructuring in Coos Bay, Oregon.” Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 18 November 1999.
“Industrial Restructuring and the Wise Use Movement: Responses to Socioeconomic Change in the Pacific Northwest.” Human Dimensions of Environmental Systems Interdisciplinary Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 11 December 1997.
