384 10 9693 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/f3980af29d11e6e0216950e563bb16c0.jpg 15c18ee3b8e083463becf538fa08f304 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 235 Height 239 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Terry Evans Description An account of the resource Terry Evans, Chicago photographer, has photographed the prairies and plains of North America and the urban prairie of Chicago, combining both aerial and ground photography. Recent work explores working steel mills and Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier. She has just completed a long term project about the town of Matfield Green, Kansas and the surrounding Flint Hills. She is currently photographing the North Dakota oil boom in collaboration with writer and producer Elizabeth Farnsworth. She has exhibited widely including one-person shows at the Chicago Art Institute, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and The Field Museum of Natural History. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman award. Her work is in major museum collections including the Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and many other collections. http://www.terryevansphotography.com/ Terry Evans June 2011 https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/f9eafc49799f5c9078e282e3822c838e.JPG 974dbf8126ca9a0e08d0052c2c127089 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 300 Height 322 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String date_created:02.08.2006 IPTC Array a:1:{s:12:"date_created";s:10:"02.08.2006";} Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edmund Russell Description An account of the resource Edmund Russell Phone: 785-864-9474 Email: eprussell@ku.edu Curriculum Vita Edmund Russell is the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of United States History (B.A. Stanford 1980; Ph.D. Michigan 1993). Russell's research synthesizes environmental history, American history, global history, history of technology, and science. His first major project focused on the environmental history of warfare. It culminated in a pair of books (War and Nature, Cambridge University Press, and Natural Enemy, Natural Ally, co-edited with Richard Tucker, Oregon State University Press). His second major project focused on evolutionary history, or the study of ways in which people have altered the traits of populations of non-human species and how these alterations have circled back to change human experience. He has published one book on this topic (Evolutionary History, Cambridge University Press) and has another under contract. A third area of interest is neurohistory, which draws on ideas from neuroscience to help us understand the past. He co-organized the first conference on neurohistory, edited proceedings of the conference, and collaborated on experiments with neuroscientists. Russell's research has received prizes in environmental history, history of technology, and history of science. He has received three teaching awards. Russell is co-editor of the Studies in Environment and History series for Cambridge University Press, distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, life member of Clare Hall at Cambridge University, and extraordinary member of the Human Sciences Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He has been a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University. He has served as conference program chair for the American Society for Environmental History, book review editor for Environmental History, executive council member for the Society for the History of Technology, and member of the United States National Committee for the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/56e71dcf6410392349e699bdfa7215a1.jpg 15ed21c89ce9ef086a09db2dd7681569 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 180 Height 225 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 IPTC String date_created:24.10.2012 IPTC Array a:1:{s:12:"date_created";s:10:"24.10.2012";} Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Uma Outka Description An account of the resource Uma Outka Associate Professor of Law uoutka@ku.edu 785-864-9241 402 Green Hall Professor Outka joined the KU Law faculty as an associate professor in 2011 and is an affiliate faculty member in the KU Environmental Studies Program and Center for Environmental Policy. She teaches environmental law, energy law and related courses, and property. Professor Outka is also a Member Scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform. Before coming to KU Law, Outka spent two years as a Visiting Scholar in Energy and Land Use Law at the Florida State University College of Law. As a faculty research partner with FSU's Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability (IESES), Outka directed a Sustainable Energy Research Project aimed at understanding and advancing legal frameworks to support sustainable energy development. Before entering academia, Outka served as general counsel for 1000 Friends of Florida, a non-profit advocacy organization focused on growth management, environmental conservation and affordable housing, and worked as an attorney in general litigation with the Northeast law firm, Verrill Dana LLP in Portland, Maine. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and holds a master's in public policy and management from the Muskie School of Public Service. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/096bec8582019297c2c2b0723ecb3b03.jpg cabc6092eb54db903bd47aa0c5a939ce Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 144 Height 173 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paul Outka Description An account of the resource Paul Outka Associate Professor 3022 Wescoe Hall 785-864-2548 paul.outka@ku.edu Areas of Research 19thC U.S. literature and culture, literature and science, American poetry, African American literature.Theoretical foci include ecocriticism, critical race theory, trauma studies, aesthetic theory, and the posthuman. Selected Publications BOOK Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS: “Posthuman/Postnatural: Ecocriticism and the Sublime in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century: Science, History, Scale. Stephanie Lemenager, Ken Hiltner, and Teresa Shewry, eds. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming. “History, the Posthuman, and the End of Trauma: Propranolol and Beyond.”Traumatology. 15.4 (2009) 76–81. “(De)composing Whitman.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 12.1 (2005) 41-60. “Whitman and Race (‘he’s queer, he’s unclear, get used to it…’).” Journal of American Studies, 36 (2002) 293-318. “Publish or Perish: Food, Hunger, and Self-Construction in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.”Contemporary Literature, 38 (1997) 447-82.Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 114, Gale-Centage, 2002.Rpt. in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 136, Gale-Cengage, Forthcoming, 2010. Awards Winner of the 2009 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Biennial Prize for “Best Book of Ecocriticism” published in 2007-08. University of Maine Trustee Professorship, 2007-08. American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Junior Faculty, 2004-05. University Honors Faculty. University of Maine at Farmington, 2003-07. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. University of Virginia, 1999-2000. Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.Department of English, University of Virginia, 1994-95. Faculty Profile I started my scholarly career as a poetry critic, writing a dissertation and several articles on Whitman, and teaching a range of courses on American poetry from its origins through the present day. While my scholarship has become less structured by genre, I retain an emphasis on close reading and a profound, if often critical, engagement with poetry and literary modes of representation in all my writing. As my work has developed, I have focused my attention less on particular authors for their own sake, and more on how a range of political, theoretical, and historical problems have been refracted through literary and other forms of cultural representation. My first book, Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance, examines a neglected but centrally important issue in critical race studies and ecocriticism: how natural experience became racialized in America from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century. Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, I offer a critical and cultural history of the racial fault line in American environmentalism that to this day divides largely white wilderness preservation groups and the largely minority environmental justice movement. The book argues that “sublimity” and “trauma” name two racially marked outcomes of a structurally similar natural experience: a potent moment in which the division between the human and the natural becomes unstable. For white Americans, such moments generally resolve according to the template of the Romantic sublime; the subject emerges fundamentally empowered by his or her identification with the sublime object. For African Americans, by contrast, such moments of instability have often proven violently reductive, in a repeated and degrading association of the subject with the nonhuman natural environment. Indeed, the conflation of blackness and nature served as the principal “justification” for chattel slavery in antebellum America, and such conflations persist at the heart of most American racist ideologies. This interest in the history of the mostly unhappy intersection between racial and natural experience has extended into a long essay I’m currently working on—or a short book, we’ll see!—tentatively entitled “Western Landscapes and the Dreamwork of Whiteness,” that looks at the ways western environmental experience has been deployed to repress the 19th century history of eastern racial trauma with a particular focus on Owen Wister’s The Virginian. I am now deeply engaged with another book project, Evolution, Essentialism, and the Organic Sublime: the Nineteenth-Century Posthuman, a work that builds on Race and Nature’sconcern with materialism, embodied identity, and ecocriticism. The book argues that in the nineteenth-century transatlantic culture of Europe and the United States, a range of discourses—medical, evolutionary, chemical, environmental, literary—began to suggest that human identity was physical rather than spiritual, a particularly complex expression of the natural. Humans became a part of the earth that learned to talk, not Beings who transcended the earthly. In the book I examine a range of episodes I call the “organic sublime,” when an individual experienced a sudden and often profoundly disconcerting awareness of the radical material identity between his or her embodied self and the natural world. This constitutive similarity between self and world, I argue, was akin to what contemporary theorists of biotechnology call the “posthuman,” the sense of being a mechanism among mechanisms, of a profound materialist ambiguity (if not, indeed, crisis) in the relations among self, body, technology, and environment. The experience of the organic sublime was often deeply disturbing, both to the subject immediately involved and to the wider ideological formations prevalent in the nineteenth century that depended on a disjunctive relationship between human and nature, particularly essentializing discourses of identity such as racial “science,” social Darwinism, and the medicalization of gender. Such discourses, I argue, functioned in part to reestablish qualitative differences between (some) humans and the natural, and thereby to deaden the shock of the eruptive nineteenth-century posthuman. A version of the first chapter of this book was just published in Routledge’s 2011 Environmental Criticism for the 21st Century. My interests in evolution and scientific materialism extend into the 20th and 21st century as well. I recently published an essay, for example on the implications of a possible pharmacological cure for PTSD and am working on a second essay about enhancement technologies, and I offer courses on posthuman theory and biotechnology that stretch from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to contemporary scientific speculations on the ramifications of emergent biotechnologies, to recent science fiction. Associate Professor Outka's Curriculum Vitae https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/eff7bc1a77e7cfa834db76ac9160a64c.jpg 2455107e5e8826ae932a6baa01f0b386 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. 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Her recent research includes “Climate Change, Public Opinion, and the Military-Security Complex,” The Sociological Quarterly (2011), “Deploying Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Iraq War” (with Lindsey Feitz), Race, Gender & Class (2007), “Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Globalization,” Theory, Culture & Society (2006), “Men and Nations” in Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinity (ed. M. Kimmel, J. Hearn, R.W. Connell, Sage, 2005), Race, Ethnicity, & Sexuality: Intimate Intersections and Forbidden Frontiers (Oxford, 2003), and American Indian Ethnic Renewal (Oxford, 1996). Her current research examines the sociological dimensions of global environmental change, specifically the race, class, gender, and sexual dimensions of climate change. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/89c2d2a306f5fdbf0e367c3147ebbc08.jpg ae35e887879f0c78f8e1e649cd59d364 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 160 Height 200 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wes Jackson Description An account of the resource 2440 E. Water Well Road Salina, Kansas 67401 Phone 785.823.5376 Fax 785.823.8728 www.LandInstitute.org Wes Jackson, President _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Wes Jackson Wes Jackson, President of The Land Institute, was born in 1936 on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After attending Kansas Wesleyan (B.A Biology, 1958), he studied botany (M.A. University of Kansas, 1960) and genetics (Ph.D. North Carolina State University, 1967). He was a professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan and later established the Environmental Studies department at California State University, Sacramento, where he became a tenured full professor. He resigned that position in 1976 and returned to Kansas to found The Land Institute. Dr. Jackson’s writings include both papers and books. His most recent works, Nature as Measure (2011) and Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture (2010), were both published by Counterpoint Press. The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008) and Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place (1996), were co-edited with William Vitek. Becoming Native to This Place, 1994, sketches his vision for the resettlement of America's rural communities. Altars of Unhewn Stone appeared in 1987 and Meeting the Expectations of the Land, edited with Wendell Berry and Bruce Colman, was published in 1984. New Roots for Agriculture, 1980, outlines the basis for the agricultural research at The Land Institute. The work of The Land Institute has been featured extensively in the popular media including The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, National Geographic, Time Magazine, Yes! Magazine, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 individuals they predict will be among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th century." In the November 2005 issue, Smithsonian named him one of “35 Who Made a Difference.” He was included in Rolling Stone’s “100 Agents of Change” in March, 2009 and in Ingram’s “50 Kansans You Should Know” in January 2011. Wes Jackson is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award (1990), a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), Right Livelihood Award (Stockholm), known as “Alternative Nobel Prize” (2000), and the Louis Bromfield Award (2010). He has received five honorary doctorates. In 2007 he received the University of Kansas Distinguished Service Award and was one of the 2011 recipients of the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences’ Distinguished Alumni Awards. Garden Club of America awarded him the Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor Medal in 2012. In addition to lecturing nationwide and abroad, Dr. Jackson is involved outside The Land Institute with a variety of projects including being a Post Carbon Institute Fellow. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/826161f51a436d6b60f6c506a5d34f42.jpg f2bb862252dd95381b1fd6df732be5fd Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Head Description An account of the resource John W. Head Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor jhead@ku.edu 785-864-9233 415 Green Hall John Head holds both an English law degree from Oxford University and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia. Before joining the KU law faculty, he was in private practice in Washington, D.C., and served as legal counsel to the Asian Development Bank and to the International Monetary Fund. He has taught law in several countries in Europe and Asia and regularly undertakes overseas assignments involving international financial law, international organizations, and international legal training. He was the Paul Hastings Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong in March-April 2008 and spent the spring 2009 term teaching and conducting research at the University of Trento in northern Italy as the Trento Chair in Law, part of the Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Awards Program. Head is an outstanding teacher who has held the Schroeder Teaching Fellowship and has received the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the Provost's Award for Leadership in International Education, the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence, the Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award, the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award and the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award. He was named the Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor in 2010. He coaches two of the school's highly successful international law moot court teams and serves as co-sponsor of the International Law Society. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/9e229cdf030c69977454a345c57bde07.jpg 627ea86ac7ddc43b31713181058ece6b Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 192 Height 240 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sara Gregg Description An account of the resource Office: 3617 Wescoe Hall Phone: 864-9468 Email: sgregg@ku.edu Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University in the City of New York, 2004; M.A. Columbia University, 2001; B.A. Middlebury College, 1997). Sara Gregg works on the environmental history of North America, with a particular focus on the intersections of environmental change with politics and agriculture. Her current project examines the environmental and economic implications of the 1862 Homestead Act for both the American West and the nation-state. Gregg’s first book, Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia(Yale, 2010), analyzed the evolution of state and federal conservation policy in Appalachia, exploring the environmental impacts of state formation during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Using a case study approach to the contemporaneous development of the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, and New Deal Resettlement Administration projects, Managing the Mountains argued that the transition from local use to federal management signaled the evolution of a new paradigm for managing the American landscape. Gregg's second book, a co-edited anthology, American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Society, and the Land(Yale, 2011), traced the continuities and changes in agrarian thought. This volume presents a narrative of American development that transcends declensionist interpretations of rural change, and encourages a reconsideration of traditional portrayals of the changes in American rural life. This book is directed toward undergraduates and a popular audience, and it seeks to capitalize upon the current interest in sustainable agriculture and the politics of food to encourage a re-examination of the history of the American relationship with farming and rural land use. Before arriving at the University of Kansas Gregg was an assistant professor of history at Iowa State University from 2004-2008. Between 2007-2010 she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, where she worked on the history of the system of rural credits in the United States. Part of the project archive can be found at http://www.farmcreditarchive.org. A member of the faculty of the KU Program in Environmental Studies, Gregg also serves on the executive committee of the American Society for Environmental History, the board of directors of the Forest History Society, and is an associate editor of the journal Agricultural History. https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/files/original/43ecd70672fd52f7ae8815b5094f5313.jpg 3eeae3c5389d7a4e7d64561c484e6367 Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 140 Height 187 Bit Depth 8 Channels 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Greg Cushman Description An account of the resource Gregory T. Cushman Office: 3606 Wescoe Hall Phone: 864-9449 Email: gcushman@ku.edu Curriculum Vitae Associate Professor of International Environmental History (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 2003) Cushman came to KU in Fall 2003. He teaches courses on Latin America, science studies, and the global environment. Many of his courses involve interdisciplinary collaboration with natural and social scientists. He and his students are core participants in KU’s NSF-funded IGERT C-Change program on the human dimensions of climate change. His first book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012) is one of the first studies to examine the environmental and cultural history of the modern world from the perspective of the whole Pacific Basin. It demonstrates how bird excrement and the birds that produce it opened the way to large-scale exploitation of phosphates, nitrates, coconuts, fishmeal, and other regional commodities. These activities profoundly influenced the course of the Industrial Revolution, the rise of experts to positions of authority, the origins and outcomes of the First and Second World Wars, and the unfolding of the conservation, cleanliness, and environmental movements on a global scale. These currents fundamentally altered the participation of Peru, New Zealand, Easter Island, and a host of other Pacific territories in world events. He is currently finishing a study of humanity’s long relationship with the cormorant and its relatives to appear in Reaktion Books’ Animal Series. Cushman’s main on-going research project focuses on the history of environmental engagement among indigenous peoples in the Andean and Pacific Worlds. It develops the concept of “First Science” to understand how environmental phenomena influenced the cosmological systems of First Peoples and how these systems provided guidance to social activities and proved capable of predicting dangerous environmental extremes. It implements a range of ethnohistorical methodologies, from 10,000-year reconstructions of ecological change, to the interpretation of ancient iconography, to the decipherment of sixteenth-century manuscripts, to collaborative engagement with native knowledge keepers and the living landscapes they inhabit. Both of these studies are part of a long-term research program to trace the deep history of humanity’s understanding of El Niño and La Niña and their modern reinvention as global disasters. Cushman has an ongoing fascination with “all things foul and ugly, all creatures short and squat” and has published an award-winning essay on the place of the humble culvert, drainage ditch, and native plants in modern landscape engineering. Other published works deal with history’s “last first contact” in New Guinea, the discovery of human-caused climate change by Humboldtian scientists, the international geopolitics of weather prediction and remote-sensing instrument networks, and other episodes in the history of climate and environmental sciences. In 2009, he took part in filming episode 18 of a TV documentary on the round-the-world voyage of the New Beagle, it visits the Serengeti of the Sea and explores how the melting of Peru's highland glaciers is destined to make the country far more vulnerable to El Niño and La Niña events(video requires Microsoft Silverlight). Fields of specializationenvironmental history (esp. climate, disasters, oceans, soils); Latin America since 1450 (esp. Peru, Chile, Andean World, Cuba); history of science, technology, and engineering (esp. environmental sciences, Humboldtian science, agriculture, fishing, transportation); the Pacific World (esp. 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Title A name given to the resource Byron Caminero-Santangelo Description An account of the resource Byron Caminero-Santangelo Associate Professor 3065 Wescoe Hall 785.864.2579 bsantang@ku.edu Ph.D. (California, Irvine) Areas of Research 20th-century African literature, ecocriticism, postcolonial theory and literature, environmental studies, critical theory. Selected Publications Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa (Ohio UP, 2011). African Fiction and Joseph Conrad: Reading Postcolonial Intertextuality (SUNY Press, 2005). “Shifting the Center: A Tradition of Environmental Literary Discourse from Africa.” Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2011). “In Place: Tourism, Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism, and Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness.” Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment (Oxford UP, 2011) "Different Shades of Green: Ecocriticism and African Literature" Anthology of African Literary Theory and Criticism (Blackwell, 2007); "Of Freedom and Oil: Nation, Globalization, and Civil Liberties in the Writing of Ken Saro-Wiwa." Research in English and American Literature (2006). I have also published other articles on 20th-Century African literature, 19th- and 20th-Century British literature, and Colonial Discourse. Awards Kemper Teaching Fellowship, Hall Center Research Fellow, Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award, Keeler Intra-University Professor, Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor, Mabel Fry Teaching Award Faculty Profile My research and teaching focuses on the relationship between literature and pressing issues of justice, freedom, and sustainability in the recently colonized world (especially Africa). Currently, I am working on a book project which posits that a legacy of environmental (literary) writing from Africa becomes apparent if we shift our focus from a theoretical framework derived from predominate models of environmentalism, often focused on the preservation of wilderness and biodiversity, to one shaped by what is often called “environmentalism of the poor” which is centered on the intersection of environmental degradation and social justice. Such writing becomes a means not only to explore some of the limitations of mainstream environmentalism, particularly in postcolonial contexts, but also to imagine what environmental justice might mean and how it might develop in specific situations. As is true of ecocriticism and postcolonialism more generally, my work is interdisciplinary, drawing on work from environmental studies, history, and geography. In fact, I work closely both in my research and my teaching with faculty members across the university. I would like to think of myself as a “nomadic” intellectual, crossing the boundaries of academic fields and cultures and seeking ways to make the connections between literary studies and “the world” more apparent. Associate Professor Caminero-Santangelo's Curriculum Vitae