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Adrian J.
Ivakhiv*
Ph.D., York University,
1997
Associate
Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental
Program/Rubenstein School of
Environment & Natural Resources
The Bittersweet
Bldg., 153
So. Prospect St., Burlington VT
05401
University of Vermont
Tel: (802) 656-0180 Fax: (802) 656-8015
E-mail: Adrian.Ivakhiv@uvm.edu
*Pronounced "Eve (Adam's
partner) - akkhh! - Eve" Adrian moved here from Toronto (43.4
N
latitude) via Wisconsin (44.1 N lat.), settling on the
shores of Lake Champlain (44.5 N lat.) in 2003 -- which makes
for a big, loosely-northward arc within the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence bioregion. (Not many people move north from Canada to the U.S., eh?) His research on
culture and environment has taken him to Kyiv
(a.k.a. Kiev), Ukraine, and the Carpathian
mountains of east
central Europe, Cape Breton Island and Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte
Islands) off either coast of Canada, southwest
England and the U.S. southwest. In a previous life
as a choral
conductor and ethno-psych-folk-punk-fusion
musician, he performed at monasteries in Egypt, concert stages (well,
two or three) in
Ukraine, and at
the Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa (honestly, once).
When he isn't teaching, writing, and coordinating the Rubenstein School's graduate concentration in
Environmental
Thought and Culture, he makes music, hikes in the Green Mountains, eats Vermont's artisanal
cheeses, and reads The Nation, Grist, Spacing, and Ji
Magazine. From his
window he watches for Champ.
► Click
here to
listen to (or read) an interview with Adrian on Krista Tippett's National
Public Radio program "Speaking of Faith".
► And
here
to read a recent interview from the University of Vermont "View."
Teaching & Advising
General Information
Recently Taught Courses & Syllabi
Ancient History...
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Research
Interests
My research and teaching
interests constellate at the intersections of ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT (environmental ethics and philosophy) and CULTURAL STUDIES (issues of cultural identity, ethnicity and
regionalism, nationalism and transnationalism, media studies, visual
culture, social justice), or what could be called "THE CULTURE OF NATURE."
Click on the following links for further information, a selection of readings/writings, etc.:
 Eco-Theory - Theorizing nature/culture
- Environmental thought & ethics
- 'Green' social & cultural theory
- Continental philosophy, phenomenology, poststructuralism & ecology
- Epistemologies of
science/politics/religion & environmental 'knowledge'
| 
Green Visual & Cultural Studies - Ecocritical
studies of film &
visual culture
- Environmental &
land art
- Environment & performance
- Place/environment in cultural policy studies
|
Place, Landscape,
Pilgrimage & Religion - Ecology & religion
- Pilgrimage & sacred space
- Nature
religion, Neo-Paganism & Earth spirituality
- The cultural politics of indigeneity
| Ecologies of Identity - Space, place,
landscape, & identity
- The social construction of
(natural, cultural, 'world')
heritage
- Cultural globalization
& anti-globalization
movements
- Regionalism,
separatism, eco/bio-regionalism
. . in Ukraine & Eastern Europe 
. . . in Eastern Canada  |
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Professional
affiliations and memberships
- Co Executive Editor, Encyclopedia
of Religion and Nature , with Laura Hobgood-Oster, Jeffrey Kaplan,
Bron R. Taylor (Editor-in-chief), and Michael York (London/New York:
Continuum International,
2005).
- Board of Directors (Member At Large, Interdisciplinary
Studies), Society
for the Study
of
Religion, Nature, and
Culture
- Collaborator, Changing
Urban Waterfronts (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada funded grant project examining socio-environmental change on
the Toronto waterfront in a comparative context)
- Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Ecocriticism.
- Scientific Advisor, Center
for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
- Editorial board, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
- Editorial board, The
Pomegranate (International Journal of Pagan Studies).
- Co-organizer, Earth Charter Community Summits, University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2001 and 2002.
- President (1989-90) and Board member, Environmental
Studies Association of Canada/L'association canadienne des etudes
environmentales
- Member: Association of American Geographers (Cultural
Geography,
Geography of Religions and Belief Systems, Russian/Eurasia/Eastern
Europe sections), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, American Anthropological Association
Other
Links
- Bruce Janz's Place
and Space web site.
- SPARC
Open Access
Newsletter - Imagine a world in which knowledge and information are
available to all. Peter Suber's site provides news and views on the
open-access to scholarship movement - news of new online scholarly
sources, boycotts of online publishers who overcharge for their
services (e.g., charging $20 or $30 for a single journal article), etc.
- The
CULTURE OF NATURE Page. My own web page devoted to the
intersection of environmental thought and cultural studies.
Currently being updated. - My MUSIC PAGE.
- The Burlington Blog
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