My research centers on the relationships between individuals (homeowners, hunters, professional foresters), environmental actors (lawns, elk, mesquite trees), and the institutions that connect them.

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B.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1989

Ph.D., Geography, Clark University 1996

My students and I seek to explain human environmental practices and knowledges, the influence non-humans have on human behavior and organization, and the implications these interactions hold for ecosystem health, local community, and social justice. Past projects have examined chemical use in the suburban United States, elk management in Montana, forest product collection in New England, and wolf conservation in India. Students working with me have explored the use and conservation of greywater in Tijuana Mexico; the relationship between formal and traditional medicine in South Africa; the transformation of coffee plantation land covers in Vera Cruz, Mexico; the politics of groundwater management in Rajasthan India; the politics of science in managing water quality in Ohio; and the relationship betwen GIS technologies in conservation and the way people imagine, manage, and debate the return of the Mexican wolf to the US Southwest. My own current central concern is the common mosquito....

Spring 2011: Geography of World Regions

Fall 2011: History of Geographic Thought

India; Montana; politics; objects; subjects; forests; mosquitoes; lawns