Ph.D., York University, 1997
Associate Professor of
Environmental Studies
Environmental
Program / Rubenstein
School
of Environment & Natural Resources
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 Ivakhiv is an Associate Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture with a joint appointment in the Environmental Program and the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources. He regularly teaches the core courses Nature and Culture and Research Methods in Environmental Studies, as well as electives including Ecopolitics and the Cinema, Environmental Ethics, The Culture of Nature, and the graduate-level Environmental Thought & Culture Research Seminar. He coordinates the Rubenstein School's graduate concentration in Environmental Thought and Culture.
With degrees in Fine Arts Studies (B.F.A.) and Environmental Studies (M.E.S. and Ph.D.) and previous appointments in departments of Religious Studies & Anthropology (at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh) and Science and Technology Studies (at Atkinson College, York University), Adrian's interdisciplinary background includes work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. He is the author of Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (Indiana University Press, 2001) and the forthcoming Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, and Nature, Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, a former President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, and on the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture.
Canadian
by birth, Adrian's recent 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, the U.S. Southwest, southwest England, and most
recently the Northeast
Kingdom of Vermont. 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, researching
and
writing, he makes
music, hikes in the Green Mountains, eats Vermont's artisanal
cheeses, and reads The
Nation, Grist,
Spacing, and Ji
Magazine. He has lived in Burlington since 2003. From his
west-facing window he watches for Champ.
Listen
to an
interview
with
Adrian on Krista Tippett's National
Public
Radio
program
"SPEAKING
OF FAITH".
Or read
the
transcript.
Read an interview with the University of
Vermont "View"
IMMANENCE: Ecoculture,
Geophilosophy, Media Politics -- an environmental cultural
theory
blog
Immanence
Shadow
Blog:
A
Google
Shared
Items Page -- Ecoculture &
Geophilosophy from around the blogosphere
Teaching & Advising
General
Information
- Prof.
Ivakhiv is Acting Director of the Environmental Program during
Fall 2011
- ADVISING HAND-OUT: If you're an advisee, please read this!
- SUGGESTED THESIS & PROPOSAL OUTLINE (for undergrads and grad students)
Current or Recently Taught Courses & Syllabi
- ECOPOLITICS & THE CINEMA -
- NATURE & CULTURE
- Environmental Thought & Culture Research Seminar
- Research Methods in Environmental Studies
- The Culture of Nature
- Environmental Ethics
- Radical Environmentalism
Ancient History...
- Controversies in Environmental Science
- Culture and Environment
- Environment, Communication, and Culture
- Environment, Globalization, and Critical Theory
- Environmental Studies in Postmodernity
- Myth and Mystery
- Nature Writing/Writing Nature
- Paradigms in Environmental Studies
Research
Interests
Adrian's 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.:
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Some other areas of interest include:
- The study of consciousness, affect, and embodied cognition
- Science and technology studies, esp. actor-network theory, complexity theory
- The psychology, sociology, and politics of knowledge (including anomalistics and conspiracy cultures)
- The philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, immanent naturalism, Daoism and Madhyamika Buddhism, anarchism and radical democracy
- See Immanence for more
Professional affiliations and memberships
- 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, 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)
- Scientific Advisor, Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
- Editorial Board, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
- Editorial Board, Environmental Communication: Journal of Nature and Culture
- Editorial Board, The Pomegranate (International Journal of Pagan Studies)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
- Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Ecocriticism.
- Board of Reviewers, Speculations
(Journal of Speculative Realism)
- 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, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, American Anthropological Association, American Academy of Religion, American Association of Ukrainian Studies, American Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
Other Links
- Immanence Blog
- Immanence Shadow Blog
- Indications environmental communication blog
- UVM Environmental Thought & Culture blog
- My Library Thing page
- My MUSIC PAGE.
- 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.
This is currently in a state of disrepair; it may be updated at some point... - A Complex History of Sustainability: Every grad student should be quizzed on this: who's who, what they say, how widely their influence extends, etc.?
- The Burlington Blog
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